SC allows Veloso to testify against recruiters via deposition

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The Supreme Court (SC) has allowed detained overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso to testify against her alleged illegal recruiters through a deposition inside her detention cell in Indonesia where she is facing death sentence for illegal drugs trafficking.

To disallow the taking of the testimony of Veloso by way of deposition through written interrogatories will curtail her right to due process, the SC said in a decision written by Associate Justice Ramon Paul L. Hernando.

“The Court held that the RTC did not gravely abuse its discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction when it granted the taking of testimony of Mary Jane by way of deposition through written interrogatories in light of the conditions of Mary Jane’s reprieve and her imprisonment in Indonesia.

Veloso’s alleged illegal recruiters Ma. Cristina Serio and Julius Lacanilao were charged with human trafficking before RTC Judge Anarica J. Castillo- Reyes in Sto. Domingo, Nueva Ecija. They have been detained since then. In a petition filed for her by the National Union of People’s Lawyers , Veloso sought the reversal of a CA’s decision against her deposition in Indonesia.“To bar Mary Jane from testifying will prevent the prosecution from fully presenting their case by means of crucial material evidence, thereby denying the victim of her opportunity to finally be heard.

 

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