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'ATTY. MAE'S CONFUSION IS NOT OUR CONCERN'

Defense lawyer Mark Vinluan and private prosecutor Mae Divinagracia once again had a brief exchange during the 33rd day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on Monday, Oct. 5.

Vinluan accused Divinagracia of effectively testifying for the AMLC witness by supplying information about documents during the proceedings. Divinagracia explained that the prosecution was trying to streamline the presentation of voluminous documents.

“With all due respect, your honor, Atty. Mae’s confusion is not our concern,” Vinluan said, insisting that the defense had previously relied on witnesses’ testimonies rather than making conclusions on their behalf. (Video courtesy of Senate of the Philippines)

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00:00For note lang po, Your Honor, I'm looking at, hindi na po sa ARRG because AMC Registration Reporting Guidelines kasi
00:08around 2014 lang po.
00:09Ito po ay 2011, so yung lumang old reporting guidelines po yung gamit namin.
00:15DBM means po debit memo.
00:18Ano po ba ang ibig sabihin ng debit memo?
00:21So, hindi po nakalagay dito, Your Honor, kung ano po yung nakalagay na debit memo po.
00:30So, hindi ko po masagot po yun.
00:32Okay. For the record, Your Honor, based on the records of the AMLC, aside from those that were already identified
00:41by the witness,
00:42there are at least 40 other additional cover transaction reports involving dollar accounts registered under or connected to Vice President
00:49Sara Duterte and Attorney Manasseh.
00:52Sorry, Your Honor.
00:53At this point, Your Honor, we would have to object to that manifestation.
00:58Your Honor, the witness is precisely here to give his testimony.
01:01So, the prosecution lawyer cannot supply the testimony to the witness.
01:06He's already basically testifying on behalf of the witness, Your Honor.
01:09Your Honor, I am confused because in the previous testimonies, every time he would refer to the documents,
01:14sometimes they would say, they would object on the ground that the matter is already in the documents and or
01:23these matters are already reflected in the documents.
01:25So, to abbreviate the proceedings, Your Honor, instead of having or asking this witness to go over each and every
01:31account or document which consists of voluminous pages, Your Honor,
01:36we are already making that manifestation, Your Honor.
01:39With all due respect, Your Honor, Attorney May's confusion is not our concern.
01:44Again, we have to go back to specific examples when we did that.
01:48We never did any, we didn't make any manifestation as to conclusions of fact and law.
01:54We just merely relied on the testimonies of the witness, Your Honor.
01:57The comments of counsels are duly noted.
01:59Let's move on, Attorney May, and henceforth, let's focus on what the witness is saying or has to say.
02:06Yes, Your Honor, I will be moving on, Your Honor.
02:09Let's move forward, counsel.

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