The lead defense counsel for Vice President Sara Duterte, Atty. Sheila Sison, maintained on Tuesday, November 10, that the property listed in the Vice President’s Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) matches the real estate identified by defense witnesses.
Sison dismissed the prosecution’s assertions that a separate, undeclared property exists, stating that the opposing camp failed to back its claims with necessary documentation.
Addressing the Senate impeachment court, Sison pointed out that prosecutors had already rested their case and formally submitted their evidence, which was ruled upon by the court on November 5.
She argued that if an entirely different property truly existed, the prosecution should have introduced supplementary records during their presentation.
”If that is the contention of the prosecution … it’s very easy for them to just present another set of tax declaration documents, deed of absolute sales, registration documents of the property stated in the SALN of the vice president to show that indeed that is a different property,” Sison told the Senate impeachment court.
Characterizing the prosecution’s position as “hair-splitting,” Sison reiterated that the properties highlighted by defense witnesses directly correspond to the entries in Duterte’s official SALN.
”We all know that this is the same property,” she said.