Former Associate Justice Serafin Cuevas, Chief Justice Renato Corona's lead counsel said that President Benigno Aquino III convinced senator-judges to vote against Corona in the impeachement trial.
Cuevas said that senators are also "people and if the president approach them, he will talk to them convince them to make judgement that is fair to the people and government" which in fact will only be fair to him, the president.
Malacanang already dismissed what Cuevas been telling to the media.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said "I didn't know the esteemed retired justice is an avid gossip fan."
Meanwhile, Integrated Bar of the Philippines general counsel and former Justice Undersecretary Ramon Esguerra, former Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay Law School dean Tranquil Salvador, and Harvard educated lawyer Karen Jimeno, will lead the panel of counsel to defend the chief justice in the impeachment trial. Former Ateneo Law School Dean Eduardo delos Angeles, who was earlier reported resigned from the defense team said that he is still part or the team and will defend the chief justice until the trial ends.
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