{"id":4556,"date":"2016-08-06T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2016-08-06T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T18:59:56","slug":"supreme-court-junks-plunder-case-vs-arroyo-sets-her-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4556","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court junks plunder case vs Arroyo; sets her free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo waves to a crowd of supporters as she leaves the Veterans Memorial Hospital where she was confined for the past 5 years. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court voted on July 19 to acquit former Philippine President <strong>Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo<\/strong> of plunder, allowing her to walk free from detention. Voting 11-4, the high court\u00a0granted Arroyo\u2019s petition seeking the dismissal of her remaining plunder case before the Sandiganbayan.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo, in her demurrer to evidence petition, sought the dismissal of her case for lack of evidence. During his campaign for the presidency, Duterte made a statement that he would release Arroyo once elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo waves to a crowd of supporters as she leaves the Veterans Memorial Hospital where she was confined for the past 5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}