(Eagle News)—Senator Sonny Trillanes IV on Friday, March 22, pleaded not guilty to the grave threats charges filed against him by Labor Undersecretary Jacinto Paras.
Trillanes entered the plea during his arraignment at the Pasay Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 47.
Paras had filed the charges after Trillanes allegedly threatened to “finish (him) off” in their brief encounter in the Senate premises in 2018.
Paras alleged Trillanes’ comments stemmed from the inciting to sedition charges he and other members of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption filed against the senator.
The charges were for Trillanes’ November 2017 comments that allegedly encouraged soldiers to shoot President Rodrigo Duterte.
Trillanes is out on bail on a separate case of rebellion for his alleged role in the Manila Peninsula Siege in 2007.