PRESIDENT Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte’s grant of a full pardon to United States Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton, a homicide convict, should not be questioned because the power to pardon rests solely with the president of the Republic.
Judge Roline Ginez-Jabalde tried to arrogate unto herself the presidential power of granting a pardon to and commuting the sentence of Pemberton but was roundly criticized.
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