'Offhand, that is good on its face because there is more latitude as to the specifics of the actual process and for adjustments on both sides,' says Veloso’s counsel Edre Olalia.
MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court decision’s to note without action the Office of the Solicitor General’s motion seeking new instructions on the conduct of taking Filipino death row inmateThe OSC filed an urgent omnibus motion after the Indonesian government imposed in December 2020 new conditions on the taking of Veloso’s depositions against her alleged human traffickers, Maria Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao.
“Offhand, that is good on its face because there is more latitude as to the specifics of the actual process and for adjustments on both sides,” Edre Olalia, private prosecution and private counsel for Veloso and her family, told Rappler. The filing of the cases against them were pivotal in getting Veloso a stay of execution in 2015. An Indonesian court had convicted her of drug smuggling in October 2010, handing down the death penalty.
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