Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the Senate to recommend that the drug charges against Senator Leila de Lima be dropped.
Hontiveros also said that the recent Supreme Court decision granting former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile Chief of Staff Gigi Reyes' writ of habeas corpus petition also benefitted de Lima.
Furthermore, “[w]hile the writ is generally not available to a person whose liberty is under the custody of an officer under process issued by a court or judge when such custody becomes vexatious, capricious, and oppressive amounting to an infringement on the constitutional right to speedy trial of an accused, the writ of habeas corpus may be provisionally availed of.”
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