Press Release De Lima asks court to dismiss contempt case vs her, lawyer Opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima and her legal counsel Atty. Boni Tacardon have asked the Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court, Branch 205 to dismiss the contempt case filed against them by the Prosecution over their statements about testimonies of witnesses in one of her trumped-up drug cases. In their Comments filed separately last March 1, De Lima and Tacardon said the court should "outrightly dismiss their [Prosecution] petition" because their statements did not present any clear and present danger, or imminent threat to the administration of justice. "In the words of the Prosecution themselves, what they only fear is that the said 'statements' will 'pursuade, influence, intimidate, incite perception and sentiments of their colleagues and other government officials, including the trial court judges,'" Tacardon said.