Court yet to rule on DOJ’s plea versus Trillanes

Judge Andres Soriano of the Regional Trial Court Branch 148 in Makati City did not issue a ruling on the Department of Justice's plea for warrant and hold departure order against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday.

Soriano's clerk of court, lawyer Rhodora Peralta, told reporters that Soriano would not issue a ruling yet. “Probably not tomorrow,” she added.

The announcement was made hours after members of the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group went inside the Makati RTC Branch 148's office. They refused to say whether they were waiting for orders regarding Trillanes' case.

Peralta did not categorically say when the ruling would be released.

Soriano is handling the government's plea for a warrant and travel ban against Trillanes, following President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration that the amnesty granted to the senator was “void from the beginning.”

Makati RTC Branch 148 was set to promulgate its decision on the coup d'etat case against Trillanes—over the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny—when it dismissed the charge pursuant to the amnesty granted to Trillanes and more than 250 others in 2011.

Pursuant to a ruling by the Supreme Court, the local courts are tasked to determine the factual issues regarding Duterte's Proclamation 572, which says Trillanes did not comply with the requirements for amnesty: An application and admission of guilt to the crime charged.