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This document discusses a case regarding Jinggoy Estrada's request to the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) to be furnished with copies of counter-affidavits from other respondents and witnesses during a preliminary investigation. The OMB denied the request, finding no rule requiring them to provide such documents. The court upheld the OMB's decision, noting that rules do not entitle a respondent access to other parties' filings or the right to cross-examine witnesses during a preliminary investigation. Estrada's constitutional right to due process was not violated by the denial of his request.
This document discusses a case regarding Jinggoy Estrada's request to the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) to be furnished with copies of counter-affidavits from other respondents and witnesses during a preliminary investigation. The OMB denied the request, finding no rule requiring them to provide such documents. The court upheld the OMB's decision, noting that rules do not entitle a respondent access to other parties' filings or the right to cross-examine witnesses during a preliminary investigation. Estrada's constitutional right to due process was not violated by the denial of his request.
This document discusses a case regarding Jinggoy Estrada's request to the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) to be furnished with copies of counter-affidavits from other respondents and witnesses during a preliminary investigation. The OMB denied the request, finding no rule requiring them to provide such documents. The court upheld the OMB's decision, noting that rules do not entitle a respondent access to other parties' filings or the right to cross-examine witnesses during a preliminary investigation. Estrada's constitutional right to due process was not violated by the denial of his request.
OMB investigation that the Ombudsman furnish a respondent with the
21 January 2015 counter-affidavits of his correspondents. Neither Sec. 3(b), Rule 112 of the Revised Rules of Criminal Procedure nor Sec. 4(c), Rule II of FACTS the Rules of Procedure of the Office of the Ombudsman supported Copies of complaints, which prayed for criminal proceedings for Estrada’s claim. The Rules of Procedure of the Office of the OMB plunder and Section 3(e) of RA No. 3019—respectively—be requires the OMB to furnish the respondent with a copy of the conducted, were served to the Jinggoy Estrada. Estrada filed his complaint and the supporting affidavits and documents of the counter-affidavits, respectively. complainant and his witnesses, not the affidavits of the Estrada filed his Request to be Furnished with Copies of Counter- correspondents, at the time the order to submit the counter-affidavit Affidavits of the Other Respondents, Affidavits of New Witnesses and is issued to the respondent. Other Filings in the plunder case with the OMB. Such request was made pursuant to the right of a respondent to examine the evidence Sec. 4(c), Rule II of the Rules of Procedure of the Office of the submitted by the complainant who he may not have been furnished OMB, which provides that a respondent shall have access to the and to have access to the evidence on record. evidence on record, should be construed in relation to Sec. 4(a) and OMB denied Estrada’s request on the ground that there is no (b) of the same Rule, as well as to the Rules of Criminal Procedure. provision under the Rules of Procedure which entitles him to be 1) The investigating officer shall require the complainant or furnished all the filings by the other parties, e.g. other respondents supporting witnesses (those of the complainant, and do not refer and witnesses. to the correspondents) to execute affidavits to substantiate the OMB found probable cause to indict Estrada and his correspondents complaint. with 1 count of plunder and 11 counts of violation of Sec. 3(e) of RA 2) The investigating officer shall issue an order attaching thereto a 3019. copy of the affidavits and all other supporting documents, Estrada failed to file a Motion for Reconsideration of the OMB’s directing the respondent to submit his counter-affidavit. order denying his request, instead he opted to file the present petition 3) The respondent shall have the right to examine the evidence for certiorari under Rule 65 seeking to annul and set aside said submitted by the complainant which he may not have been order. furnished and to copy them at his expense. A respondent’s right to examine refers only to the evidence submitted by the ISSUE complainant. 1) Whether or not Estrada’s request to be furnished with copies of counter-affidavits by other respondents and witnesses shall be It is a fundamental principle that the accused in a preliminary granted investigation has no right to cross-examine the witnesses which the 2) Whether or not denial of request violated Estrada’s constitutional complainant may present. Section 3, Rule 112 of the Rules of Court right to due process expressly provides that the respondent shall only have the right to submit a counter-affidavit, to examine all other evidence submitted HELD by the complainant and, where the fiscal sets a hearing to propound 1) No. clarificatory questions to the parties or their witnesses, to be afforded There is no law or rule which requires the Ombudsman to furnish a an opportunity to be present but without the right to examine or respondent with copies of the counter-affidavits of his cross-examine. correspondents.
2) No. Estrada failed to specify a law or rule which states that it is a compulsory requirement of due process in a preliminary