Escudero to Kapunan: You weren't stood up, 'you may have been ghosted'

WIRE — MANILA, Philippines — Presiding officer and Senator-judge Francis "Chiz" Escudero on Tuesday clarified that the defense panel might have "ghosted" the prosecution panel, and that the prosecutors were not stood up. Escudero described the difference between the two situations after the defense panel reportedly failed to respond to repeated requests for a meeting by the

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