Rowena Flores: Last News

Sep 08 2020 09:08 AM | Updated as of Sep 08 2020 11:41 AMMANILA -- The lawyer of Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who is convicted in the killing of a Filipina transgender woman, said Tuesday she did not know how President Rodrigo Duterte arrived at his decision to pardon her client.Lawyer Rowena Flores said she "didn’t really personally apply for any pardon from the President" for Pemberton."I didn’t know that any was forthcoming or that anybody filed an application for pardon in his behalf," she told ANC.Flores said she only learned of the absolute pardon from media reporters.Asked if this could have been an agreement between Manila and Washington, she said, "I don’t really know what happened.”The President “has the discretion and