President Noynoy Aquino has the prerogative, based on his oath of office, to do justice to everyone, including detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, acting Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said on Saturday.

A former Minister of Justice during the Marcos administration, Enrile said it is within the President’s right to discuss with his Justice Secretary, Leila de Lima, how to help Trillanes by reviewing his case.

Aquino, in a talk with Malacañang reporters, had said that “injustice” may have been committed against Trillanes who he thinks could not have been guilty of leading a “coup d’etat” in the Oakwood luxury apartment-hotel in Makati City three years ago.

Trillanes, elected senator in the 2007 national elections, remains in detention over rebellion charges arising from the Oakwood mutiny and is being tried by a military court.

Enrile, former president of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa), said Trillanes should, if he wants to, file a petition for a reinvestigation of his coup d’etat case if he has already been arraigned.

Herminio Coloma, who is part of the presidential Communications Group, said the President has no intention of meddling in the affairs of the judiciary, but is only assuring the public there is no “miscarriage of justice.”

“If one would examine the oath of office of the President, (it includes) to do justice to every man. That’s why we have the Department of Justice, which is in congruence with the executive branch in pursuing justice,” Coloma said in a radio interview.

He also dismissed as “speculative” queries that the President's statement on Trillanes’ case is meant to get the latter out of detention so he could attend sessions in the Senate and support the bid of Sen. Francis Pangilinan of the Liberal Party for the Senate presidency.