Sep 04 2020 01:03 PM | Updated as of Sep 04 2020 01:08 PMMANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesperson should stop commenting on the case of a US Marine who killed a Filipina transgender, whose family he formerly represented, the foreigner’s lawyer said Friday.
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque, who served as counsel for the family of victim Jennifer Laude before his Palace appointment, had earlier said it was "deplorable" that an Olongapo court granted homicide convict US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton from prison over good conduct. “The spokesperson for the President should be stopped from further making statements on this case because he’s a person of power now and everything he says may be construed rightly or wrongly.