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This doesn’t happen in his movies.
“The pretrial of Senator Bong Revilla’s plunder case in connection with the pork barrel scam was reset to February 4, 2016,” reports Elizabeth Marcelo on GMA News Online.
The report noted: “At the scheduled pretrial of the case before the Sandiganbayan First Division on Wed, Sep 30, the prosecution and the defense requested for more off-court meetings to finish marking their respective evidence that they intend to present during the trial proper.”
First Division chairman Associate Justice Efren Dela Cruz said, “In view of the joint manifestation of both parties that they have not completed yet the pre-marking of exhibits, let the pretrial this morning be cancelled and reset to February.”
The decision was made “to give more time for the prosecution and the defense to finish marking their voluminous documentary evidence.” Moreover, the Sandiganbayan “set additional preliminary conferences starting this Friday and twice a week afterward.”
Revilla was quoted as saying, “Sayang at medyo made-delay na naman yung ating trial proper. One year and three months na ‘ko ngayon sa piitan, ganun talaga. Pero may awa din ang Diyos (It’s too bad that the trial proper will be delayed again. I have been in detention for one year and three months. But I believe God will have mercy).”
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