MANILA – Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon has filed a complaint before the Supreme Court for the disbarment of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio from the legal profession.
According to Gadon, the SC should initiate a motu proprio proceeding of disbarment against Duterte-Carpio for her recent kill threat against President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand “Martin” Romualdez.
“This live presscon on Zoom was on numerous social media platforms and has been seen by millions of Filipinos, reported on television, radio and newspapers and now has become general public knowledge that the Court may take judicial notice,” Gadon said in a letter he filed before SC.
“Such statements coming from the second-highest official of the land, seen and heard by millions of Filipinos are undoubtedly illegal, immoral and condemnable,” he added.
Gadon alleged that Duterte-Carpio’s remark was “a fully constituted plan for murdering three above named individuals as she further affirmed that the assassination plot is not a joke.”
“She categorically and unequivocally stated that she has talked to someone whom she directed to kill the three of them if she is killed,” Gadon told the court.
Gadon, who himself was a disbarred lawyer, also questioned the Supreme Court’s failure to rule on the Vice President’s disbarment case in 2011, when she “punched and inflicted injury to a sheriff who was just enforcing an Order of the Court.”
Under the law, “proceedings for the disbarment, suspension or discipline of attorneys may be taken by the Supreme Court motu propio, or upon the filing of a verified complaint of any person before the Supreme Court or the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).”/PN
