Lawyer claims disbarment rules violated
The Supreme Court has been asked to hold Armed Forces Chief Gregorio Catapang liable for indirect contempt for violating the confidentiality rule on disbarment proceedings.
Aside from Catapang, Roque, counsel for the family of slain transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude, also asked the SC to cite Camp Aguinaldo Commander Brig. Gen. Arthur Ang and spokesman Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc for indirect contempt.
He also wanted them to be imprisoned for three months and fined with P30,000 each.
“Their act of repeatedly publicizing their threats to file a disbarment suit against petitioner, and the filing itself of the said suit, violate the confidentiality rule covering a disbarment proceeding, as stated in section 18, rule 139-B of the Rules of Court,” Roque said, in his pleading.
He cited the case of Relativo v. De Leon where the SC found the complainant in the disbarment case guilty of contempt for causing the publication in newspapers of the filing and pendency of the disbarment proceedings.
Roque cl;aimed that the disbarment case had no other purpose than to malign him and his professional standing as a lawyer since he has been helping the Laude family in seeking criminal liability of suspect US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton.
Sources at the IBP, however, revealed that the complaint against Roque was returned to the AFP over “defects.”
In its complaint against Roque filed last Nov. 4, the Armed Forces accused him of violating the Code of Professional Responsibility over his inappropriate behavior during an incident inside military headquarters Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City two weeks ago.
Roque accompanied his clients, the sister and German boyfriend of Laude, when the two breached the perimeter fence on October 22 in aqn attempt to make sure Pemberton was in the premises.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2014/11/11/afp-chief-faces-contempt-raps/
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