PRETRIAL DAY 4 Mamamayang Liberal Rep. Leila de Lima, a former senator, returns to the Senate as a member of the House prosecution team on Wednesday for the continuation of the pretrial conference ahead of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. —PHOTO BY NIÑO JESUS ORBETA
MANILA, Philippines — The House prosecution panel has formally called for the unsealing of the box containing Vice President Sara Duterte’s tax records so that these can already be marked at the pretrial stage of her impeachment case.
The team maintained that its request, addressed to the Senate impeachment court, was reasonable since it would already streamline the proceedings, as opposed to waiting for disputes to arise later and possibly delay the trial proper.
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“Since we are in the marking of exhibits, this is the proper stage for the opening of the box so we’ll have an inventory of the contents of that particular [Bureau of Internal Revenue, or BIR] box,” said Mamamayang Liberal Rep. Leila de Lima, a member of the 11‑member panel.FEATURED STORIES
