The Supreme Court says former judge Rolando Mislang did not show 'ostensible proof' of his 'genuine repentance and remorse of his past infractions.'
, and allowed him to post bail after four years in detention.
In ruling on Mislang’s petition for clemency, the SC observed that while he waited for five years from dismissal before filing a request, the former judge still believed in the unfairness of the penalty against him. The ex-judge also tried to seek President Rodrigo Duterte’s intervention in his case in 2019.
“His bare statement in the petition that he ‘expressed his heartfelt apology and remorse for [his] misdeeds’ leaves much to be desired as it appears that he had only accepted the Court’s ruling to dismiss him in the present petition filed a few months ago,” it added. The SC likewise did not accept Mislang’s claims of “immense economic strain, being the primary breadwinner of his family, and owing to enormous costs for his son’s medical procedure, as well as for the payment of his own maintenance medicine.”
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