Ampatuan defense seeks to block 2 prosecution witnesses
by Ana Miranda, InterAksyon.com
January 9, 2012

 MANILA, Philippines – The defense in the Ampatuan massacre case is seeking to defer the presentation of two prosecution witnesses who are not on a court-sanctioned list of witnesses and evidence in the trial.

In the two-page urgent motion he filed Monday, lawyer Philip Sigfrid Fortun asked Quezon City Regional Trial Court Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes to prevent the “opening of the floodgates to forgotten, manufactured and contrived testimonies” and not allow Gemma Oquendo, sister of massacre victim Cynthia Oquendo, and a forensic expert of the National Bureau of Investigation.

Oquendo, the victim, was a lawyer of now Maguindanao Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu. Her sister is also a lawyer.

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