Rep. Gerville Luistro —File photo by Grig C. Montegrande | INQUIRER

MANILA, Philippines —The House prosecution panel thanked the Senate impeachment court on Thursday night for helping complete the pretrial proceedings in the case against Vice President Sara Duterte despite the thousands of documentary exhibits involved.

The five-day pretrial conference, held on June 18 and June 22 to 25, closed with the marking of documentary evidence and the submission of the parties’ stipulations and manifestations ahead of the trial proper, which starts on July 6.

“The marking of exhibits has been completed, and the pretrial conference has been terminated,” the lead prosecutor, Batangas Rep. Gerville “Jinky Bitrics” Luistro, said in Filipino during a press conference after the proceedings.

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