Vhong Navarro

The Supreme Court's (SC) Third Division has dismissed the rape and acts of lasciviousness charges against television personality Vhong Navarro for lack of ...

A third complaint was also submitted, detailing the events of the two incidents. “Under the circumstances, the CA simply had no basis to reverse the prosecutor's finding of lack of probable cause. In a subsequent complaint, the model claimed that Navarro had assaulted her once more on Jan.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the charges for rape and acts of lasciviousness against television host Vhong Navarro due to lack of probable cause, ...

The CA, however, reversed the DOJ ruling in 2022 that resulted in his temporary detention at the National Bureau of Investigation detention facility before he was transferred at the Taguig City Jail. The case stemmed from the complaint filed by Deniece Cornejo against the actor in 2014, which were eventually dismissed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The high court reversed the ruling of the Court of Appeals (CA) issued in July 2021 and September 2022.

THE Supreme Court has ordered the dismissal of the charges of rape and acts of lasciviousness filed against ABS-CBN television host and actor Ferdinand ...

In granting Navarro’s petition, the SC ruled that the CA gravely erred in ordering the DOJ to resurrect the rape case against Navarro despite the inconsistencies in the complaints filed by Cornejo. 8353 and for acts of lasciviousness. The CA decision reversed and set aside the April 30, 2018 and July 14, 2020 resolutions of the DOJ, which dismissed the complaint filed by Cornejo in 2014 against Navarro owing to inconsistencies in her affidavits.

The Supreme Court (SC) Third Division has dismissed the case for rape by sexual intercourse and acts of lasciviousness filed against TV host Ferdinand ...

The CA, however, reversed the DOJ prosecutors’ findings, saying “the preliminary investigation is not the proper venue to rule on the respondent’s guilt or innocence.” The appellate court likewise stated that “the admissibility or inadmissibility of the parties’ evidence should be ventilated before the trial court during the trial proper and not in the preliminary investigation.” EDV “Under the circumstances, the CA simply had no basis for reversing the prosecutor’s finding of lack of probable cause,” the SC said, adding that not the prosecutor but it was the Court of Appeals who “substituted its own judgment for that of the prosecutor’s finding” without any finding of grave abuse of discretion on the part of the prosecutors. “To suggest that a prosecutor turn a blind eye to such glaring and manifest inconsistencies — under the premise that the evaluation thereof would already touch on the complainant’s credibility to be solely assessed in a full-blown trial — would be to compel the prosecutor to satisfy himself or herself to mere allegations in a complaint, and abdicate his or her bounden duty to screen cases for trial, thus passing the buck to the trial courts,” the SC added. “Here, the prosecutor had reasons to doubt the veracity of Cornejo’s accusations, as the glaring and manifest inconsistencies pointed out in her complaints are readily discernible by common sense without need of rigorous examination or an expertise of a trial court judge for such purpose,” the SC said through Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul B. The high court reinstated the findings of the Department of Justice panel of prosecutors who dismissed Cornejo’s complaints due to the “glaring and manifest inconsistencies” of her statement. In a 42-page decision, the high court reversed the 2022 ruling of the Court of Appeals, saying it “gravely erred” when it granted the appeal filed by model Deniece Cornejo, who claimed the actor-comedian had forced himself on her on two occasions in 2014.

The Supreme Court says model Deniece Cornejo's accounts against Vhong Navarro are 'manifestly inconsistent and highly deficient, doubtful, and unclear'

Meanwhile, Cornejo’s camp said Navarro sustained his injuries after Lee and company [caught him attempting to rape Cornejo](http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/48999-deniece-cornejo-cedric-lee-speak-out-against-vhong-navarro). [victim of extortion](http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/48923-vhong-navarro-denies-attempted-rape-allegation) by Cornejo, businessman Cedric Lee, and their other companions. He [returned to his hosting stint ](https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/celebrities/vhong-navarro-returns-its-showtime-january-2023/)on It’s Showtime in January.

THE Supreme Court (SC) dismissed on Monday, March 13, 2023, the charges of rape and acts of lasciviousness filed by model Denice Cornejo against actor/host ...

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