FROM ONE CELL TO ANOTHER. Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya II waits to be transferred from the Senate to a Bulacan court, which ordered his arrest last week on charges of graft and malversation. Detained at the Senate since September, Discaya will now be held at the Bulacan provincial jail. —NIÑO JESUS ORBETA
The Court of Appeals (CA) has rejected contractor Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya’s appeal to reverse a trial court’s ruling that kept him under Senate custody for nearly nine months after being cited in contempt.
The CA’s Third Division denied Discaya’s petition for certiorari in a June 4 resolution, ruling that it was the wrong legal remedy and declaring it “procedurally defective and substantively deficient.”
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“Thus, the appropriate recourse of petitioner before the Court should have been through a notice of appeal under Rule 41, Sec. 2(a),” read the ruling, citing the provision for the filing of an ordinary appeal under the Rules of the Court.
