Jesus Gonzalo Barrera y Alimurung (December 18, 1896 – August 28, 1988) was a Filipino lawyer served as 67th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1959 to 1966.[1]

Jesus G. Barrera
67th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
In office
1959–1966
Appointed byCarlos P. Garcia
Preceded byGuillermo Pablo
Succeeded byFranciso Capistrano
28th Secretary of Justice (Philippines)
In office
April 18, 1959  June 4, 1959
Preceded byPedro Tuason
Succeeded byEnrique Fernandez
Judge, Court of First Instanance, Manila and Batangas
In office
1938–?
Personal details
Born
Jesus Gonzalo Barrera y Alimurung

18 December 1896
Concepcion, Tarlac
Died15 August 1968
OccupationLawyer
CommitteesCitizens Legal Assistance Comitee, Civil Liberties Union

Biography

He was born in Concepcion, Tarlac. His father, Marciano Barrera, served as the first appointive Governor of Tarlac province under the U.S. government. Barrera received his law degree from the University of the Philippines in 1921 and then entered private law practice. He later received a master of law degree from the University of Santo Tomas. He was first appointed a judge in 1938. During the Japanese occupation, he headed the Civil Liberties Union of the Philippines, an underground movement of prominent former officials who furnished military information to guerillas to be passed on to Gen. Douglas Macarthur in Australia. In the late 1940s Barrera was a key figure who attempted to convince President Manuel Roxas to negotiate a peace with the Huk guerillas who had rebelled because the United States and Philippine governments refused to recognize their wartime activities vs the Japanese enemy.[2]


Career

In 1956, while serving as Undersecretary of the Department of Justice in the Philippines, Barrera stated that the situation with regard to U.S. military personnel off-base, where they were generally tried by Philippine authorities when accused of a crime was workable, but that the situation on the U.S. military bases where actions were not under Philippine criminal jurisdiction needed to change. He was the chair of the subcommittee negotiating the issue of jurisdiction during the 1956 U.S./Philippine talks trying to renegotiate the status of the U.S. military areas in the Philippines.[3] Barrera was also the Secretary of Justice for the Philippines in 1958.

In 1971 Barrera was a member of the Philippines Constitutional Convention and a contender for the presidency of the convention.[4] He was one of 19 convention delegates who refused to sign the Marcos-influenced 1972 Constitution which granted Marcos autocratic powers.

References

  1. "Supreme Court of the Philippines genealogy project". Geni.com. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  2. Alvin H. Scaff, The Philippine Answer to Communism (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955), p. 29
  3. Joseph W. Dodd, Criminal Jurisdiction under the United States-Philippine Military Bases Agreement: A Study in Conjurisdictional Law. The Hague: Martius Nijhoff, 1968. p. 54-55
  4. Edward R. Kiunisala. "The Politicization of the Constitutional Convention", Philippines Free Press, January 22, 1972]
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