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Badoy guilty of indirect contempt over red-tagging of judge

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Adrian Ayalin

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<div><span dir="ltr" id="isPasted"></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:456px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/Former-NTF-ELCAC-spokesperson-Lorraine-Badoy.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner">Former NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Lorraine Badoy. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — The Supreme Court has found former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict spokesperson Lorraine Marie Badoy-Partosa guilty of indirect contempt of court after red-tagging a judge and <span dir="ltr" id="isPasted">threatening to bomb the offices of magistrates.</span></p><p>In the en banc decision promulgated on August 15, 2023, Badoy was ordered to pay a fine of P30,000 with a warning that a repetition of the same act shall merit a more severe sanction.</p><p>Among the statements made by Badoy quoted in the decision was a threat to &quot;bomb the offices of judges whom she deemed as friends of terrorists.&quot;</p><p>The posts of Badoy came after the issuance of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar of a resolution dated September 21, 2022, dismissing the petition of the Department of Justice to proscribe the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#x27;s Army as a terrorist group.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/22/22/court-junks-ph-govts-plea-to-tag-cpp-npa-as-terrorists" id="isPasted">Rebellion is not terrorism: Court junks PH govt’s plea to tag CPP-NPA as terrorists</a></div><p>The court noted that Badoy uploaded a public post entitled &quot;A Judgment Straight from the Bowels of Communist Hell,&quot; in reference to the resolution of Judge Magdoza-Malagar.</p><p>&quot;She was not merely advancing her advocacy when she made those incendiary statements on social media, she effectively made a call to action against Judge Magdoza-Malagar and the entire judiciary,&quot; the SC said in the decision penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen.</p><div><strong>FREE SPEECH?</strong></div><p>Badoy for her part had told the court that she was merely exercising her freedom of expression.</p><p>The Supreme Court however stressed that freedom of speech should not be confused with abuse of such liberty as her statements were beyond objective criticism.</p><p>Badoy also told the court that she did not intend to threaten Judge Magdoza-Malagar with physical harm but merely employed “hypothetical syllogism”.</p><p>But the court said Badoy’s posts led multiple people to publish comments swearing to assist her cause but she stroked the fire further.</p><p>&quot;An incitement to commit lawless violent action and is likely to cause such violent action causing death or injury is not covered by the constitutional privilege of protected speech,&quot; the high court said.</p><p>The court also said Badoy’s posts must not be treated lightly as it noted that she has more than 166,000 Facebook followers.</p><p>“Her statements, though unsubstantiated, have the power to spark a deluge of assaults against the judiciary and its members,” the SC said.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/29/22/badoy-to-sc-i-did-not-threaten-judge-malagar" id="isPasted">Badoy to Supreme Court: I did not threaten Judge Malagar</a></div><style type="text/css" id="isPasted">
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</style><p>In an interview with the media after the decision was released by the Supreme Court, Badoy apologized to the Supreme Court &quot;<span style="background-color:transparent">for the intemperate language and tenor I took.&quot; </span></p><p>She however reiterated &quot;never threatened Judge Malagar.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It was a figure of speech, hindi kasi ako terorista, wala akong tine-threaten, doktor ako, I preserve lives,” she said.</p><p>Badoy also said she still stands by her statements against the CPP-NPA.</p><p>“I cannot, however, apologize for the outrage I felt that made me take pen to paper and pour my heart out– an outrage that I feel to this day,” she said.</p><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>The Supreme Court has found former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict spokesperson Lorraine Marie Badoy-Partosa guilty of indirect contempt of court after making threats against judges.</p>

The Supreme Court has found former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict spokesperson Lorraine Marie Badoy-Partosa guilty of indirect contempt of court after making threats against judges.

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Badoy guilty of indirect contempt over red-tagging of Manila judge

Adrian Ayalin,

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Published February 29, 2024 12:18 PM PHT

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Updated February 29, 2024 07:21 PM PHT

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