Castro wants out of bribery case

To avoid negative feedback that may happen later on, assistant city prosecutor Mary Ann Castro is asking the city prosecutor to exclude her in cases represented by lawyers who are also representing her in other personal cases.

After city prosecutor Nicolas Sellon last week lifted the memorandum temporarily excusing her from handling court cases, she was included in Friday's raffling of cases. During the raffle Castro was assigned the case filed by Customs district Collector Lourdes Mangaong against Lelis Lim of Sterling Insurance Company, Inc. for allegedly trying to bribe her.

And since Mangaong is represented by lawyers Oliveros Kintanar and Adelino Sitoy, Castro wants to inhibit herself from handling this case, and other cases or which any or both of these lawyers are handling as they, too, are representing her libel and malicious mischief cases which are still pending in courts.

"A salutary norm is that the undersigned reflects on the probability that a losing party might nurture at the back of his mind the thought that the undersigned had unmeritoriously tilted the scales of justice against him," Castro said in her in letter addressed to Sellon.