00:00The prosecution drops Vice President Sara Duterte's Chief of Staff Zulayka Lopez as a witness in the impeachment trial.
00:07Private Prosecutor Lorna Capunan says it is totally unnecessary to call Lopez to the witness stand.
00:13Or we would want to have proven three things.
00:16First, that she was personally present inside that detention center
00:23when the Vice President uttered the video Exhibit P-4-10
00:34when she uttered the statements that she had contracted,
00:39that she had already contracted a killer to kill the President, the First Lady, and the Speaker of the House.
00:50Lopez was in the Senate on Monday, July 13, and Tuesday, July 14,
00:54waiting to be called as a witness, and would have likely been a hostile witness, for the prosecution.
01:00Lopez was the reason for Duterte's visit to the House of Representatives on November 21, 2024,
01:05when the Vice President locked herself inside her brother's office.
01:09Days later, Duterte held the infamous virtual media conference
01:12where she threatened the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
01:15Meantime, the prosecution also says it will no longer call House Security Officer Belinda Belio.
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