I always believe that God has a mysterious way of making truth and justice triumph. That the vote for a guilty verdict was overwhelming surprised everybody, especially the defense, but I will not credit the prosecution for the overwhelming vote. The congressmen went on a fishing expedition from 8 articles of impeachment, narrowing it down to only 3, and from 45 properties to only 5. Santiago barraged the prosecution team, the senator judges, and no less than the presiding judge for incompetence that embarrassed Tupas and the other members of the team close to tears, but then divine providence intervened. The defense team committed the blunder of calling the Ombudsman to the witness stand, leading eventually to the testimony of CJ Corona. It was the senator judges, not the prosecutors, who baited the defense to bring the Chief Justice to prove the Ombudsman wrong. Although he has no 10 million dollars, 2.4 million dollars, and 80 million pesos, they are likewise mind-bogglingly big. The defense, I suspect, didn’t expect their client to have that much money. These are the nails that sealed Corona’s fate; nails that poured out from the accused's mouth, none of which were mentioned in the original complaint. Yeah, it was mentioned during the trial that he has 870,000 dollars in his account. Still, nobody expected it to be 2.4 million dollars (3.9 million dollars at one time according to Lacson), and although he has peso accounts, nobody expected it to be 80 million. Let there be justice…and peace. Let’s move on with our heads up proud in our democracy that we did something extraordinary, and whenever we look back to this date in our history, our lips can break into a smile. I was not there; I was in the mountains of Saudi Arabia, but I watched it live online :-) Halfway around the world.
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