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The Supreme Court of the Philippines.Will Vice-President Sara Duterte appear in the impeachment trial to watch the testimony of her chief of staff Zuleika Lopez? Atty. Benjamin Tolosa Jr., legal spokesperson of the House prosecution team, said there will be no change in the prosecution’s strategy if the Vice-President decides to show up as a spectator in the trial.Private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan also asked the impeachment court if the Veep would like to attend the trial after she visited the Senate to confer with her lawyers last Tuesday.It’s going to be the same. If [the Vice-President] will be there, it would be good indication humarap naman siya sa impeachment court. Baka aside from watching her chief of staff testify, maybe the respondent could also…heed the public’s call and personally answer the charges against her.The House prosecution has asked the Senate impeachment court to invite Lopez as a witness for Article 4 of the Impeachment case against Duterte for allegedly contracting an assassin to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos and then Speaker Martin Romualdez if anything happens to her.Prosecutors earlier shared a clip of Duterte’s threat while the defense panel shared a portion from the same video, showing Lopez crying after she was threatened with House arrest by members of the House quad committee.Tolosa said members of the prosecution are still discussing whether or not to invite the Vice-President as a hostile witness, noting that Duterte’s testimony may no longer be needed if the prosecution already has enough witnesses and evidence.Prosecutors, he said, cannot summon respondents during a criminal trial since they have the right against self-incrimination “but that is not applicable here.We can file it but let’s see how the impeachment court will decide.