00:00 Former President Rodrigo Duterte will not be brought to trial for his first criminal
00:05 complaint, after Quezon City prosecutors moved to junk the suit filed by ACT Teacher's representative
00:11 Franz Castro.
00:13 Quezon City prosecutors junked the grave threats complaint "for want of sufficient evidence."
00:18 In October 2023, Castro filed a criminal complaint against Duterte after the former president,
00:24 in his television show, linked the ACT Teacher's lawmaker to the communist armed movement.
00:29 He also said Castro should be targeted to be killed first.
00:33 Duterte did not appear during two schedules for the complaint's preliminary investigation.
00:38 The former president's first criminal complaint was a test case for the justice system.
00:43 It was the first criminal complaint filed after Duterte's immunity wore off.
00:47 It could have been a chance for Duterte to undergo a court trial for red-tagging and
00:51 grave threats.
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