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SC orders transfer of US Marine rapist to RP jail


By Edu Punay Updated Feb 12, 2009 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) ruled yesterday that a US Marine convicted of raping a Filipina must be transferred out of his detention facility in the US Embassy.

The SC decided that Lance Corporal Daniel Smith should be detained in a facility under the Philippine government’s control and that the US Embassy did not qualify as such a place.

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