The shooting incident should have not been occurred had the securities of the Cebu’s Palace of Justice never neglected themselves of maintaining the security in spite of lack of security equipments like metal detector. I myself can assert that the security of Cebu’s Palace of Justice has been lax compared with other government or especially private-owned establishments. When I entered at the Cebu’s Palace of Justice in September 2011, their security personnel never even inspected my body or my valuables I brought and they just entered me with ease as I had to attend a court hearing for our project in Political Science subject.
Another, John Pope had a reason on why he did of shooting the people at the Palace of Justice that cost three lives including himself as our judicial system really stinks on making urgent verdict especially if both complainants comes from the lower economic status or non-Filipinos. That complacency on making urgent verdict for a specific case frustrates many people and some of them have to do extra judicial means of resolving a case like gunning down a complainant or respondent. I think we need to overhaul our judicial system where our judges does not bombarded by several cases that have to be heard in a day like for example of having a jury system like in US where a jury is the one will decide the verdict while a judge just facilitate an entire court proceedings.
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