(Eagle News) — A Makati court has scheduled the hearing on the Department of Justice’s application for an alias warrant against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Sept. 13.
Judge Andres Soriano of the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 148 also gave Trillanes five days to comment on the DOJ motion that also seeks for a hold departure order against him.
The application for an HDO and an alias warrant was made by the DOJ after President Rodrigo Duterte revoked the amnesty granted by then-President Benigno Aquino III against Trillanes.
Duterte had cited a certification from the Armed Forces of the Philippines that said proof of Trillanes’ application for the amnesty was “not available,” and Trillanes’ alleged failure to expressly admit his faults in the Oakwood mutiny and Manila Peninsula siege in 2003 and 2007 respectively.
Trillanes refuted this, but Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said there was a need to expressly admit faults in connection with the coup d’etat case, and not just the rebellion case, filed against the senator.
Guevarra said the elements of the two were different.
In its motion, the DOJ also noted that the case against Trillanes had not been terminated despite the amnesty as the court merely suspended its promulgation of judgment on the same. Moira Encina