Joseph Pemberton: Last News

Sep 09 2020 11:55 AMJustice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Wednesday he did not see any reason for the public to question President Rodrigo Duterte's "personal act of mercy" to pardon a US soldier who killed a Filipina transgender woman. There were no reports that US Marine Scott Joseph Pemberton committed prohibited acts ever since he was detained after the October 2014 killing of Jennifer Laude, whom he met at a bar while on break from military exercises in the northern city of Olongapo, said Guevarra. The President “presumed that he (Pemberton) must have been acting very well”, the Justice Secretary told ANC. “We don’t have to force him (Duterte) to take a look at all the documents first before you make that decision," he said.