The lawyer of Joseph Scott Pemberton admitted she was clueless on why President Rodrigo Duterte pardoned the US Marine.
MANILA -- The lawyer of Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who is convicted in the killing of a Filipina transgender woman, said Tuesday she did not know how President Rodrigo Duterte arrived at his decision to pardon her client.
The President “has the discretion and the power, authority to grant moto propio or on his own, a pardon,” she said.“He’s like a sort of teenager when it comes to talking and he wouldn’t really tell you long sentences and he wouldn’t discuss in details his emotions, but I could hear that he’s very happy from his voice,” said Flores.
Duterte's pardon clears all legal obstacles to the soldier's release, despite him serving just over half his 10-year sentence.
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