Earlier within the week, the prosecution laid out their case: that Duterte performed a “pivotal” position in a marketing campaign of extrajudicial killings that noticed hundreds murdered.
Duterte personally drew up dying lists, incited murders after which boasted about them afterwards, prosecutors alleged.
They confirmed a number of movies of the previous president threatening to homicide alleged drug customers and joking about his abilities in extrajudicial killing.
However Kaufman mentioned the prosecution had “cherry-picked” speeches, ignoring what he mentioned have been dozens of examples of Duterte stressing the necessity to act throughout the legislation.
“Don’t kill if you’re not in peril of shedding your life,” Kaufman cited Duterte as saying in a single speech.
Following the week-long “affirmation of fees” listening to, the three-judge panel has 60 days to resolve whether or not to proceed to a full trial.
A lawyer representing the victims instructed the ICC on Tuesday that the courtroom was the “final refuge” for family members of their seek for justice.
Kaufman burdened: “The defence doesn’t disrespect the soul of any deceased particular person, nor does it make mild of the lack of life.”
