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Atty Vitaliano Aguirre has been cited for contempt for not listening the rant of Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago


Sen Miriam Defensor-Santiago calls the prosecution team, composed of lawyers and congressmen, "gago."

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the ears have it!

from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/:

“I charge this private prosecutor with contempt of this impeachment court! I have evidence right here taken by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, and to say that nasaktan ang tenga ko (my ears hurt) should have been (a cause) for you to walk out of this impeachment court. But you cannot make those contemptuous gestures in front of a judge, and get away with it,” Santiago declared.

Cayetano himself took the picture using his cellular phone camera.

Santiago made the motion to cite Aguirre in contempt soon after the volunteer lawyer candidly admitted to the impeachment court that he did cover his ears.

“That’s true because my ears already hurt,” Aguirre said, while being questioned by Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada.

Estrada had inquired into Aguirre’s motive for publicly displaying his disdain for Santiago.

“It seemed that you don’t want to listen to her,” Estrada said. “That’s disrespect for a member of this court.”

Aguirre argued that he had to cover his ears because he did not agree with Santiago’s position that it was not usual for lawyers to withdraw, or amend their complaints.

“This happens every day. The fact is that this is the first time that I experienced in my 40 years of practice that a judge would lecture his lawyers. That’s not proper,” Aguirre said.

All about respect

Told by Estrada that he should have objected to Santiago’s manifestation, Aguirre retorted that he had “no right to object.”

Under the Senate rules, private prosecutors are under the supervision of the prosecution panel and can not debate with the senators.

Aguirre said: “May I say something? If my actuation has hurt somebody, I really did it purposely because my ears were hurting from her shrill voice. My point here is that even if we’re mere lawyers, we also deserve respect. If you demand respect, respect also these lawyers because human dignity has no equal.”

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How do you spell ‘wah?’

Upon a motion from the House deputy lead prosecutor, Ilocos Norte Representative Rodolfo Fariñas, this unparliamentary remark was later stricken from the record, with no objection from Santiago herself.

Scolding the prosecution, the senator said the prosecution was “playing games” with senator-judges in dropping the five articles after promising earlier to present about 100 witnesses.

“I was not born yesterday. We will be studied generations from now. This is a travesty. I request the secretariat to record in the journal that I said, ‘Wah!’” she said.

Santiago repeated this expression three times.

After the blast, Sotto said that Senator Serge Osmeña had asked, “What’s the spelling of ‘Wah?’”

No one asked Santiago what that term of endearment was all about.

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