The proposed "3 p.m. to sawa" set-up for Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial is gaining traction with the House prosecution panel. This, as the high-stakes trial enters its ninth week, but only 16 actual hearings to show for it. Under the current set-up of the Senate...
Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong totally understands why the camp of impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte hates private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan so much. For one thing, Kapunan has been killing it--so to speak--in the Senate impeachment trial in terms of...
If there 's a perfect word to describe pro-Duterte trolls, it 's "desperate". Thus, said private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan as he chided these netizens for forcing new narratives into the online discourse just to discredit members of the House prosecution panel in Vice President Sara...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's foreign travels--reportedly paid for with personal funds--could come back to haunt her in her Senate impeachment trial. This, after private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan said that respondent Duterte’s declared income, assets, and family business interests could be...
For private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan, impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte is "contributing to the problem" of violence among Filipino youth, no thanks to the latter 's signature violent rhetoric. Kapunan had this to say Wednesday, Aug. 19 following the deadly shooting at...
Private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan says hostile witnesses like former Office of the Vice President (OVP) special disbursing officer (SDO) Gina Acosta could get "coached" during breaks in testimony--something that 's fairly common in the Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte....
House prosecutor Akbayan Party-list Rep. Chel Diokno has expressed concern that the ongoing Senate impeachment trial against Vice President Sara Duterte may be teaching the wrong things to law students. Diokno had this to say following day 15 of the nationally-televised trial last Aug. 12, which...
Noting that lawyers simply have different courtroom styles, defense spokesperson Atty. Michael Poa downplayed the apparent tension between defense lawyer Kristine Ferrer and prosecution counsel Lorna Kapunan during the impeachment trial on August 12. Asked about Ferrer’s conduct during the...
Pro-impeachment congressmen Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña criticized Vice President Sara Duterte 's defense counsel Kristine Ferrer for her utterances and demeanor on Wednesday, Aug. 12. Their tirades stemmed from Ferrer 's...
Private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan said in open court--although in jest--that she held herself back from "spanking" her much younger defense lawyer-counterpart, Kristine Ferrer, during the continuation of Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday, Aug. 12. It was the...
Stressing that all lawyers should maintain professionalism and respect in the courtroom, defense lawyer Kristine Ferrer asked the impeachment court on Wednesday, August 12, to stop prosecution counsel Atty. Lorna Kapunan from making side comments such as “I was about to spank her” and “I was...
Private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan couldn 't help but comment during the Senate impeachment trial Tuesday, Aug. 11 that only Superman could have done the single-day confidential funds disbursement feat indicated in the documents submitted by the Department of Education (DepEd) under its former...
