Judge refused Judicial responsibility: What are the implications of such decision?

Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 6:07 AM

Judge Luisito Cortez is a Quezon City judge who is now heavily criticized for refusing judicial responsiblity.His main reason is his security especially his family's. The case he is supposed to handle is the case of Mayor Andal Ampatuan.

What are the implications of this decision? One, Cortez makes it very clear he is thinking of his own safety and his family's at the expense of his greater responsibility to humanity. He did not listen to Efren Penaflorida's challenge to harness in each of us the hero that is waiting to be unleashed. Two, life has no guarantee which means one's safety relies on God's protection. In the case of Cortez all he can do is offer his present undertaking in God's hand even as he accepts the dangerous case that deals with the mastermind of the Maguindanao massacre. Three, he is not a good role model of a judge who embodies quest for justice whatever it takes. He is missing the point of his unique vocation: to be the judge who will listen to the prosecution and the defense regarding the Maguindanao Massacre and Four, when the raffle chose his sala, it was a was a way of telling Cortez he was particularly chosen by fate - destiny -because he has the charism which he alone possesses even if at the outset, Cortez does not even know he has it. This is the rationale why the cases had to be raffled, the intervention of the unseen hand that chooses someone even if the one concerned feels he is not ready.

Yet, in the end we can only comment or criticize like what Senator Richard Gordon and Senator Miriam Santiago have poignantly expressed. Cortez, alone, will have to listen to his social conscience and face his God.

 

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