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THIS may strike some as counterintuitive, but the principal story that I see in the acquittal of former senator and justice secretary Leila de Lima in two of the three drug cases filed against her is not the victory of justice and innocence, but the failure of another Philippine administration in prosecuting a political opponent.

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