THE LEGAL counsel of the suspect in the Roxas night market bombing has filed a motion for judicial determination of probable cause.
During the hearing yesterday, Regional Trial Court Branch 33 Judge Lope Callo has reset the hearing on the motion on Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. to give the prosecution time to comment on the motion.
The motion was filed by lawyer Aquila Grapilon, legal counsel of Mokammad Abdul Jabbar A. Sema alias Datu Masla” or “DM.”
Judge Callo also issued a subpoena against Jackson Mangulamas Usi alis “Abu Mansur” or “Jam” and Ausa Abdullah Mamasapano alias “Abu Hamsa” as they were the one tagged Sema because of their extra-judicial confessions.
The two respondents are now temporarily held in the detention facility of Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
Usi and Mamasapano, in their separate extra-judicial confessions, admitted that they were responsible behind the explosion that killed 15 and injured 69 others.
They also disclosed that it was Sema who suggested to use the bomb in Davao City instead because it is the hometown of President Rodrigo Duterte, and to compel the government to cut the military forces in Basilan which at that time was fighting the Abu Sayyaf Group.
Initially, the group planned to use the bomb Midsayap, North Cotabato but it did not push through since there were no crowds in their specific target when they arrived.
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