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                    [Title] => Erap lawyers optimistic court will OK house arrest
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Defense lawyers are hopeful that the Sandiganbayan will allow ousted President Joseph Estrada to remain at his Polk Street residence in North Greenhills Subdivision in San Juan for a month so that he could more easily attend his trial before the anti-graft court in Quezon City.


"Isang buwan lang naman (It’s just for a month) or so," said former senator Rene Saguisag, Estrada’s lead counsel.


Saguisag said it would be better for Estrada to be moved to Polk Street to make him more accessible to his lawyers and potential witnesses.


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                    [Title] => Erap  wants to attend Mike Velarde’s birthday
                    [Summary] => Detained President Joseph Estrada asked the Sandiganbayan yesterday to grant him a furlough on Aug. 20 to undergo a medical checkup at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan and also to attend the birthday Mass of El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde.


Jay Flaminiano, a member of the defense team, said Estrada was "invited" by Bro. Mike to attend the religious group’s regular Saturday Mass at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park where the birthday of Velarde and El Shaddai’s anniversary will be celebrated.


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                    [Title] => Lawyers to insist SC biased vs Estrada
                    [Summary] => The lawyers of detained former President Joseph Estrada yesterday said they would present evidence to the Sandiganbayan to support their argument that the Supreme Court was biased against Estrada.


According to Estrada’s lawyers, this bias on the part of the highest court in the land resulted in his "premature loss of immunity" in 2001.


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                    [Title] => Prosecutors won’t commit on gag order
                    [Summary] => Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio, whom lawyers of ousted President Joseph Estrada have accused of making "unprofessional statements" before the press, would not commit yesterday to a setup in which no media interviews would be allowed during trial.


"I will have to think about it," he said in reaction to suggestions of Sandiganbayan justices that he and defense lawyers stop hurling insults at one another. Villa Ignacio said defense lawyers had also lavished ridicule on government prosecutors when it was their time to present evidence against Estrada.

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                    [Title] => Prosecutors raring to grill Erap
                    [Summary] => Government prosecutors are eager to grill detained President Joseph Estrada once he takes the witness stand to rebut allegations that he embezzled a total of P4.1 billion from government coffers during his 31 months in office until his ouster in January 2001.


Chief Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio suggested that the deposed leader make himself available for the scheduled Monday-Wednesday hearings this coming July, but defense lawyer Jose Flaminiano, who earlier vowed to produce his client, has remained non-committal.


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                    [Title] => Estrada to testify in plunder trial
                    [Summary] => Former President Joseph Estrada will be called to testify at his corruption trial, his lawyers told the Sandiganbayan yesterday.


"We will present the (former) president himself," Jose Flaminiano told the anti-graft court’s three-member special division, refuting claims by Chief Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio that they have run out of "significant and relevant witnesses."


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                    [Title] => Sandigan OKs Erap b’day bash in Tanay
                    [Summary] => The Sandiganbayan granted yesterday afternoon the request of detained President Joseph Estrada to hold a party today at his 15-hectare rest house in Tanay, Rizal for the celebration of his 68th birthday.


In a two-page resolution, the justices of the anti-graft court’s special division said they allowed the request despite the objection of Chief Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio, because a party has always been held every year to celebrate Estrada’s birthday since he was detained on plunder charges in 2001 and his police custodians have assured his safety.


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FRANCISCO VILLARUZ AND DIOSDADO PERALTA

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"Isang buwan lang naman (It’s just for a month) or so," said former senator Rene Saguisag, Estrada’s lead counsel.


Saguisag said it would be better for Estrada to be moved to Polk Street to make him more accessible to his lawyers and potential witnesses.


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Jay Flaminiano, a member of the defense team, said Estrada was "invited" by Bro. Mike to attend the religious group’s regular Saturday Mass at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park where the birthday of Velarde and El Shaddai’s anniversary will be celebrated.


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                    [Title] => Lawyers to insist SC biased vs Estrada
                    [Summary] => The lawyers of detained former President Joseph Estrada yesterday said they would present evidence to the Sandiganbayan to support their argument that the Supreme Court was biased against Estrada.


According to Estrada’s lawyers, this bias on the part of the highest court in the land resulted in his "premature loss of immunity" in 2001.


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                    [Title] => Prosecutors won’t commit on gag order
                    [Summary] => Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio, whom lawyers of ousted President Joseph Estrada have accused of making "unprofessional statements" before the press, would not commit yesterday to a setup in which no media interviews would be allowed during trial.


"I will have to think about it," he said in reaction to suggestions of Sandiganbayan justices that he and defense lawyers stop hurling insults at one another. Villa Ignacio said defense lawyers had also lavished ridicule on government prosecutors when it was their time to present evidence against Estrada.

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                    [Summary] => Government prosecutors are eager to grill detained President Joseph Estrada once he takes the witness stand to rebut allegations that he embezzled a total of P4.1 billion from government coffers during his 31 months in office until his ouster in January 2001.


Chief Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio suggested that the deposed leader make himself available for the scheduled Monday-Wednesday hearings this coming July, but defense lawyer Jose Flaminiano, who earlier vowed to produce his client, has remained non-committal.


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                    [Title] => Estrada to testify in plunder trial
                    [Summary] => Former President Joseph Estrada will be called to testify at his corruption trial, his lawyers told the Sandiganbayan yesterday.


"We will present the (former) president himself," Jose Flaminiano told the anti-graft court’s three-member special division, refuting claims by Chief Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio that they have run out of "significant and relevant witnesses."


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                    [Title] => Sandigan OKs Erap b’day bash in Tanay
                    [Summary] => The Sandiganbayan granted yesterday afternoon the request of detained President Joseph Estrada to hold a party today at his 15-hectare rest house in Tanay, Rizal for the celebration of his 68th birthday.


In a two-page resolution, the justices of the anti-graft court’s special division said they allowed the request despite the objection of Chief Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa Ignacio, because a party has always been held every year to celebrate Estrada’s birthday since he was detained on plunder charges in 2001 and his police custodians have assured his safety.


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