Sandiganbayan issued an arrest warrant against Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on plunder charges. [1] The New York Times filed the warrant. [1] Philstar filed him detained in hospital on Tuesday. [2] A warrant is not a conviction. Print not convicted. Do not print a guilty verdict.

The court itself said issuance is probable cause, not guilt. Leave a named arraignment to the edition that owns a named arraignment. Print warrant. Print not a conviction. Hospital detention is still detention, not a guilty finding. Print not a conviction as Tuesday's named hold. Presumption of innocence remains the court's own sentence. Nothing today rewrites the Manila line. Print the warrant as still not a verdict.

Print not a conviction. Tuesday is not a Romualdez verdict.

Hospital detention is custody with monitors attached; it changes optics, not charges. Probable cause remains the ceiling. Tuesday's warrant is paper, not a verdict.

Warrants accuse; courts convict; Manila's calendar separates the two. Tuesday sits between. The paper waits with the docket.

Dockets wait with paper; Tuesday's warrant is still paper. Hospital monitors change optics. Charges don't move with beds.

Tuesday sits between warrant and verdict. Hospital monitors change optics. Charges don't move with beds.

Philstar has Romualdez in hospital detention under a Sandiganbayan warrant for plunder. Hospital custody is still not a conviction. Monitors change the picture, not the plunder counts. Manila has not read any guilty finding.
Hospital custody is still not a conviction. Charges don't move with beds. Manila has not read any guilty finding.

Hospital custody is still not a conviction. Charges don't move with beds. Manila has not read any guilty finding.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing