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Harlene Delgado

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178667574884520260707-senate-impeachment-sara-diuterte-MT4.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Vice President Sara Duterte arrives at the Senate on the second day of the impeachment trial on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>MANILA — The camp of Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday said it filed a manifestation emphasizing the need for oral arguments on their earlier motion seeking to dismiss her <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/8/11/grave-threats-complaint-filed-vs-vp-sara-duterte-before-qc-court-doj-1619">grave threats cases</a>, citing its “far-reaching consequences.”</p><p>“The defense is now filing a manifestation emphasizing the need for oral arguments on the Vice President’s motion to quash, considering the far-reaching consequences of the Grave Threats cases,” Duterte’s counsel for her grave threats cases Atty. Paul Lawrence Lim said. </p><p>“If a sitting Vice President may be indicted and prosecuted, then other incumbent impeachable officers such as the Ombudsman, members of the Constitutional Commissions, Supreme Court Justices, and even the President, may also be indicted and prosecuted,” he said in a statement. </p><p>Duterte’s camp earlier filed a <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/8/13/sara-duterte-s-camp-seeks-to-quash-grave-threats-cases-1931">motion to quash</a> the grave threats information filed by the Justice department before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, citing “lack of jurisdiction.” </p><p>Lim previously said that the vice president was “confident” that the charges against her would “ultimately be dismissed.”</p><p>“Under prevailing circumstances, we have anticipated and prepared for such an outcome,” he earlier said, noting that the Vice President “will exercise all available legal remedies in due course.” </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/8/13/claire-castro-sees-element-of-inciting-to-sedition-in-sara-duterte-s-grave-threats-case-1841">Claire Castro sees ‘element of inciting to sedition’ in Sara Duterte’s ‘grave threats’ case</a></div><p>The case stemmed from Duterte’s remark in a 2024 online conference that she had arranged for President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez to be killed should she be assassinated. </p><p>The Vice President later said that her remarks were taken out of context.</p><p>The remarks are also part of the allegations in the ongoing <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/sara-duterte-impeachment-trial">impeachment trial </a>of Duterte. </p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-LHt2teu-YY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"/></div>

<p>The camp of Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday said it filed a manifestation emphasizing the need for oral arguments on their earlier motion seeking to dismiss her grave threats cases, citing its “far-reaching consequences.”</p>

The camp of Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday said it filed a manifestation emphasizing the need for oral arguments on their earlier motion seeking to dismiss her grave threats cases, citing its “far-reaching consequences.”

Sara Duterte’s camp seeks oral arguments on motion to quash grave threats cases, cites ‘far-reaching consequences’

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Sara Duterte’s camp seeks oral arguments on motion to quash grave threats cases, cites ‘far-reaching consequences’

Harlene Delgado,

ABS-CBN News

Published August 14, 2026 10:54 AM PHT

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