It took 13 years for the family of veteran journalist Lourdes Simbulan to get justice for her death in a vehicular accident. People thought justice would be swift since the accident seemed like a cut-and-dried case: a taxi that was taking Simbulan to the UP Ayala Technohub along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City was struck by two buses.
Simbulan, known as Chit Estella, was on her way to a high school reunion on May 13, 2011 when a Nova Auto Transport bus driven by Victor Ancheta hit the taxi. As the vehicle careened from the impact, its rear was rammed by a Universal Guiding Star bus driven by Daniel Espinosa. The impact killed Estella, at the time a journalism professor in the University of the Philippines.
There’s a long list of such cases, with several dismissed by the courts over the “inordinate delay” that deprived the defendants of due process. Simbulan’s case dragged on for 13 years. In a graft case filed against Moro National Liberation Front chieftain Nur Misuari, judgment was handed down 23 years after the offenses were committed.
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