Badoy denies threatening trial judge, lawyer says she may face contempt

against Manila Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar, Rico Domingo, a former president of the Philippine Bar Association, said Thursday.

Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo on Thursday reassured all judges and other judiciary members nationwide that the SC will always have their back and will offer protection from any form of threat and harassment.“You can count on us,” Gesmundo told the judges during the second day of the annual convention of the Metropolitan and City Trial Judges Association of the Philippines in Boracay, Aklan.

“According to the law and I want to be talking right now as a lawyer, there is what we call ‘indirect contempt.’ It is a contemptuous act that is ‘improper conduct tending, directly or indirectly, to impede, obstruct, or degrade the administration of justice,’ that would be indirect contempt,” Domingo said.Citing the sentiments of some lawyers, Domingo also said Badoy’s statements “are equivalent to inciting insurrection,” based on Section 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Badoy criticized the judge for supposedly asking that “acts of terrorism” of the CPP-NPA-NDF should be deemed “political crimes” which are “treated with leniency.”In a subsequent post, Badoy also appeared to red-tag the judge’s husband, lawyer Leo Malagar, chancellor for the University of the Philippines-Cebu.

“So, I hope I am clear here. It is not I who has the track record for murders, massacres, tortures, rape, and inhumanity but the terrorist CPP NPA NDF. “They also ruled as CONSTITUTIONAL the Anti-Terrorism Law– this beautiful law that will end the free fall of our children into violent extremism and into their early, tragic deaths, the grief of our mothers who have lost their children, the blood bath in our ancestral domains where the most heinous of crimes were committed among the most helpless among us–our indigenous brothers and sisters.”

The PJA, for its part, called on the Philippine government “to declare that in no time under its watch, will democracy be imperiled by an irresponsible and unfounded assault on a trial judge.”

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