The Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 on February 12 denied for lack of merit the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind’s motion for reconsideration on her request to post bail. Janet Lim Napoles, who is currently detained at the Fort Sto Domingo in Laguna for serious illegal detention charges, filed a motion to grant her bail in September 2013. Serious illegal detention is a non-bailable offense, but the rule says “no person charged with a capital offense, or an offense punishable by reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment, shall be admitted to bail when evidence of guilt is strong, regardless of the stage of the criminal prosecution.” The court said however that the offense Napoles is being accused of “has been committed.”
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