MANILA, Philippines — 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.
Center for International Law (Centerlaw) said that a premonition had been seen as early as Monday morning — hours before President Rodrigo Duterte pardoned Pemberton — that the latter would be released in any way.
Centerlaw said that Pemberton’s release was not an overnight progress, but a gradual process that stemmed from Duterte’s leanings to the United States (US) — from the administration’s decision to counter previous pronouncements to cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the purchase of military equipment from the superpower.
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