Recantation is not an eraser
A retraction can be bought or coerced as easily as testimony can, often more easily, because by then the witness is isolated, exposed, and out of money.
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Daily Tribune
A retraction can be bought or coerced as easily as testimony can, often more easily, because by then the witness is isolated, exposed, and out of money.
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From that moment he loses standing: he cannot participate, cannot seek relief, and regains his footing only by surrendering.
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A genuine fight against corruption, then, must be a whole-of-nation effort. It needs provincial offices with teeth, digital public bidding that closes the room…
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Documentary regularity and physical reality are often two different things, and it is in the gap between them that corruption lives.
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Constructive criticism, the kind that sharpens a policy, exposes a genuine failure, and holds power to account, is the lifeblood of a healthy democracy.
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A law degree is a voice, courtroom or not. The task is to use it to reason rather than to inflame, to weigh not only what is written, but what is left unsaid.
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A brilliant direct examination makes the VP look like a sympathetic leader caught in a political witch hunt. A devastating cross-examination makes them look…
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Punishing bad actors matters, but it does not fix a system that keeps generating the same conflicts.
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The Tacloban tragedy reveals that the current law treats juveniles as a monolith, ignoring how online echo chambers, radicalization, and ready access to…
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Preliminary police reports suggest this wasn’t a sudden burst of adolescent impulse, but a calculated plot orchestrated weeks in advance.
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