Later that night, Guevarra provided Supreme Court decisions to justify Duterte’s orders, even though jurisprudence does not have the force of a court order.
His justice secretary, Menardo Guevarra, watched him from the front row wearing a drab face.
In Malacañang on September 4, President Rodrigo Duterte issued a live television warning to heinous crime convicts who were previously released on good conduct time allowance (GCTA): surrender or be hunted.
"If you do not, then beginning at this hour, you are a fugitive from justice," Duterte said, without citing a law, without a court order, and without so much a written memorandum, even though GCTA, once granted, can never be revoked.
The implementation of Duterte's arrest order was doomed from the beginning.
Hindi ka naman pinapasuko, sumuko ka?” Guevarra said on September 26.
This boosted Duterte's order to rearrest thousands of heinous crime convicts already released the years before.
Duterte gave them 15 days.
The President offered a P1-million bounty for each of them.
When the 15 days lapsed, they all returned.
SOURCE: www.rappler.com
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