MANILA – Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV was ready to get arrested but the Makati City Regional Trial Court branch handling his coup d’état case has not yet issued a verdict as of Wednesday.
Makati City RTC Branch 148 Clerk of Court Maria Rhodora Peralta said Wednesday afternoon there was no timetable with regard to the release of the verdict of Judge Andres Soriano.
“Not today and probably not tomorrow,” Peralta said in a short interview with the press waiting outside the court.
Earlier in the day all signs pointed at the looming arrest of Trillanes.
The senator arrived in his office with bags of clothes while police officers trooped outside the Makati City RTC waiting for the release of an arrest warrant.
The Department of Justice requested Soriano to issue the arrest warrant and a hold departure order against Trillanes in view of the coup charge he was facing relative to the 2003 Oakwood mutiny.
Earlier Makati City RTC Branch 150 issued an arrest warrant and hold departure order against Trillanes for a rebellion charge relative to the 2007 Manila Peninsula siege. The senator posted a P200,000 bail.
On Aug. 31 President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation No. 572 revoking the amnesty granted to Trillanes. He claimed the senator did not comply with the “minimum requirements” to qualify for the amnesty program.
Duterte also ordered the arrest of Trillanes “so that he can be recommitted to the detention facility where he had been incarcerated for him to stand trial for crimes he is charged with.”
But Trillanes insisted that his amnesty petition went through the right process, based on parameters set by then President Benigno Aquino III./PN
