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MANILA, Philippines — Lawyer Amando Virgil Ligutan’s personality as a law professor may have prompted him to clarify that misleading questions are not allowed even during cross-examination, members of the prosecution team for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial said.
In a press briefing after the impeachment trial on Wednesday, counsel for the prosecution and legal spokesperson Benjamin Tolosa Jr. said that since many law students and aspiring lawyers monitor the proceedings at the Senate, Ligutan may have felt the need to correct misconceptions.
Tolosa was referring to Ligutan’s Facebook post where he stated that a “principle all lawyers and law students know by heart” is that “misleading questions are not allowed even on cross-examination” — believed by Duterte’s lawyers to be a response to defense counsel Kristine Ferrer’s comments that misleading questions are allowed.
“With respect do’n sa naging post kanina, I think nagkaroon siya (Ligutan) ng paalala lang […] dahil alam naman natin napakaraming naka-subaybay dito sa proceedings na ‘to pati, kasama na dyan mga new lawyers or aspiring lawyers, mga law students,” Tolosa said.
