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...indicted on the basis of misleading statements he had made before the Agrava panel, a fact-finding commission appointed by Marcos after Aquino's death. After ten months of investigations, the panel recommended that the defendants, all military men except for one civilian, be tried for conspiracy to kill Aquino. Ver's original Agrava-panel testimony was thrown out last August after the Supreme Court upheld an earlier decision that Ver's right not to incriminate himself had been violated...
...group of citizens, including lawyers who assisted the Agrava panel, plans to ask the Supreme Court to declare a mistrial. The group cites, for instance, the alleged role of one of the judges in orchestrating the cross-examination of a key prosecution witness who had testified that she saw Aquino being shot by a soldier standing behind him as he stepped off the plane. The defendants maintain that Aquino was shot instead by a lone Communist gunman named Rolando Galman, who was killed by security guards immediately afterward...
...formidable obstacle: in a five-page ruling, the three justices conducting the trial threw out the major evidence against Ver and seven of his military colleagues. Most of that evidence was based on the defendants' testimony in April 1984 before a civilian fact-finding panel known as the Agrava board...
Quijano's account is the strongest evidence offered yet by the prosecution, which is expected to wrap up its case later this month. Four other witnesses' appearances were canceled after they recanted the testimony they had made before the Agrava board, whose reports to President Ferdinand Marcos led to the trial. One witness, an airline employee, said at first that he had seen someone pointing a gun at the back of Aquino's head on the plane ramp; later he swore that before the shooting, a gun had been pointed at him and he had fainted. Even Galman's stepdaughter...
Quijano had offered several times to testify before the Agrava board. Each time, however, she failed to appear for an interview. Last December, when she was arrested and charged with five counts of minor fraud, she was publicly identified as the missing witness in the Aquino case. But she returned to hiding after her release from government custody and the dismissal of all but one of the charges...