The group of lawyers who helped slain transgender Jennifer Laude’s family build the case against US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton admitted that the soldier’s pardon was a move they saw coming. | GabrielLaluINQ
Bagares is one of the lawyers who helped Laude’s family in the legal proceedings.
In a separate interview with DZBB, Bagares noted that he also felt that a surprise would happen since public opinion was steering against Pemberton’s release — and that Duterte’s answer would be to stop any further court discussions on the issue. Pemberton was found guilty of killing the Filipina transgender in 2014. While his verdict was to serve a 10-year sentence, an order signed by Olongapo Regional Trial Court Presiding Judge Roline M. Ginez-Jabalde ordered the release of the soldier, as he has supposedly completed his jail time that many contested saying it was only six years.
Duterte’s decision drew flak again as it was seen by others as a way of giving privilege to an American soldier who committed a crime in the country.
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