Daily Serving of Legal Matters

With the successful removal of benign tumor of Janet Lim Napoles, comes with the explosion of some meaty revelation in the media just very recently.  In fact, before the said operation, Janet Lim Napoles had already a long talk with Department of Justice Secretary Leila De Lima over her plan to divulge the "tell-all" expose' of information she has with the PDAF controversy. And what is the deal?  To turn her a State Witness to prove the guilt of her other co-accused. In the previous post, it was discussed already what are the requisites of becoming a state witness.  For more information, please visit this http://dailyservingoflegalmatters.blogspot.com/2014/02/requisites-of-state-witness.html . So what would be the process for Janet Lim Napoles to eventually become a State Witness?  "Upon Motion of the Prosecution Before Resting Its Case" Before an accused is discharged as a State Witness, it is the duty of the prosecution to file a motion to as...

To convict the accused, the prosecution must have witnesses and evidences to show proof beyond reasonable doubt; otherwise, the accused shall be acquitted. Thus, if the available witnesses of the prosecution as well as the evidences present would not be sufficient to indict the accused beyond reasonable doubt, the prosecution may move that one or more of the accused shall become as STATE WITNESS.