The next appointee of President Rodrigo Duterte in the Supreme Court (SC) will be crucial in deciding whether to grant the petition of Sen. Leila de Lima seeking the reversal of her indictment and the invalidation of her arrest for drug charges, a source of The Manila Times in the High Court said.

This is because of the close voting expected in the case, the source said.

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