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    1) While serving as a provincial governor, charges of violating the Anti-Graft Law were filed against Paredes in the Sandiganbayan. He was later elected to Congress. 2) During his second term, the Sandiganbayan issued a preventive suspension against Paredes under the Anti-Graft Law. Paredes challenged this, citing protections for Congress members. 3) The court held that Paredes could still be suspended under the Anti-Graft Law by the Sandiganbayan, as the suspension was a preliminary preventive measure related to charges filed before he was a Congressman, not for actions taken as a member of Congress.

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    1) While serving as a provincial governor, charges of violating the Anti-Graft Law were filed against Paredes in the Sandiganbayan. He was later elected to Congress. 2) During his second term, the Sandiganbayan issued a preventive suspension against Paredes under the Anti-Graft Law. Paredes challenged this, citing protections for Congress members. 3) The court held that Paredes could still be suspended under the Anti-Graft Law by the Sandiganbayan, as the suspension was a preliminary preventive measure related to charges filed before he was a Congressman, not for actions taken as a member of Congress.

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    G.R. No. 108251. January 31, 1996

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    1) While serving as a provincial governor, charges of violating the Anti-Graft Law were filed against Paredes in the Sandiganbayan. He was later elected to Congress. 2) During his second term, the Sandiganbayan issued a preventive suspension against Paredes under the Anti-Graft Law. Paredes challenged this, citing protections for Congress members. 3) The court held that Paredes could still be suspended under the Anti-Graft Law by the Sandiganbayan, as the suspension was a preliminary preventive measure related to charges filed before he was a Congressman, not for actions taken as a member of Congress.

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    Section 16

    (3) Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly behavior,
    and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its Members, suspend or expel a Member. A penalty of
    suspension, when imposed, shall not exceed sixty days.

    PAREDES, JR. VS. SANDIGANBAYAN

    GR NO. 118364. JANUARY 28, 1997

    FACTS:

    While Congressman was still Provincial Governor, charges of violations of the Anti-Graft
    Law were filed against him before the Sandiganbayan. Subsequently, he was elected to
    Congress. During his second term in Congress, the Sandiganbayan imposed a preventive
    suspension on him pursuant to the Anti-Graft Law. Paredes challenged the authority of the
    Sandiganbayan to suspend a district representative.

    ISSUE:

    Whether or not Paredes, now a member of Congress, be suspended by order of the Sandiganbayan.

    HELD:

    YES. Petitioner’s invocation of Section 16(3), Article VI of the Constitution which deals with the power of
    each House of Congress inter alias to ‘punish its members of Congress for disorderly behavior ‘ and
    suspend or expel a member’ by a vote of two-thirds of the members subject to the qualification that
    the penalty of the suspension spoken of in Sec. 13 of RA 3019 which is not penalty by a preliminary
    preventive measure presenting from the fact that the latter is not being imposed on the petitioner for
    misbehavior as a Member of the House of Representative.

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