(Eagle News) — The pleadings filed by the government and the camp of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to appeal a part of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148’s October ruling that, among others, denied the issuance of an arrest warrant against the senator for coup d’etat but at the same time upheld the validity of Proclamation No. 572 are now up for resolution.
This as Trillanes’ camp filed their reply to the prosecution’s opposition to the senator’s partial motion for reconsideration before the Makati court on Friday, Nov. 16.
In the reply, Trillanes is asking Judge Andres Soriano to admit and consider the same, after the prosecution argued that the motion for partial reconsideration he earlier filed was filed “out-of-time.”
The senator is also asking the court to set aside its Oct. 22 resolution that upheld the legality of Proclamation No. 572 declaring void ab initio the amnesty granted to him for his participation in the Oakwood mutiny and the Manila Peninsula siege in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
The prosecution, on the other hand, is appealing Soriano’s facts in his ruling — that Trillanes filed an application for amnesty and admitted his guilt for the offense of coup d’etat.
It is also contesting the judge’s ruling that the court could no longer order the arrest of Trillanes because of the principle of immutability of a final judgment.