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06-03-08, 07:30 AM
Convicted US Marine’s tour of duty extended
Manila Standard Today
Washington has extended the tour of duty of convicted Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith pending his case before the Court of Appeals, said an Interior Department official.
Undersecretary for Public Safety Marius Corpus, chairman of the committee tasked to oversee his custody, visited the detained serviceman at the US Embassy along Roxas Boulevard.
He was joined by representatives of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
The committee was formed by Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno to monitor Smith after he was transferred from the Makati City Jail to the embassy to comply with the Visiting Forces Agreement.
Corpus said Smith’s two-year tour of duty was supposed to end this month, adding that the convict was spending time cooking under guard by two Marines.
Judge Benjamin Pozon of Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 139 sentenced Smith to 40 years in prison for raping a 22-year-old Filipina in Subic, Zambales, site of a former US naval base.
Three other Marines were acquitted.
The victim, Nicole (not her real name), accused Smith of raping her inside a Starex van at Alava Pier before midnight on Nov. 1, 2005, while his three companions were cheering.
The verdict came more than a year after the rape, and only weeks before the lapse of one-year period for trials in cases involving visiting US personnel. Rene M. Alviar
Ellie
Manila Standard Today
Washington has extended the tour of duty of convicted Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith pending his case before the Court of Appeals, said an Interior Department official.
Undersecretary for Public Safety Marius Corpus, chairman of the committee tasked to oversee his custody, visited the detained serviceman at the US Embassy along Roxas Boulevard.
He was joined by representatives of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
The committee was formed by Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno to monitor Smith after he was transferred from the Makati City Jail to the embassy to comply with the Visiting Forces Agreement.
Corpus said Smith’s two-year tour of duty was supposed to end this month, adding that the convict was spending time cooking under guard by two Marines.
Judge Benjamin Pozon of Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 139 sentenced Smith to 40 years in prison for raping a 22-year-old Filipina in Subic, Zambales, site of a former US naval base.
Three other Marines were acquitted.
The victim, Nicole (not her real name), accused Smith of raping her inside a Starex van at Alava Pier before midnight on Nov. 1, 2005, while his three companions were cheering.
The verdict came more than a year after the rape, and only weeks before the lapse of one-year period for trials in cases involving visiting US personnel. Rene M. Alviar
Ellie