Kaufman finished with: Asking judges to give “negligible weight” to 2 star prosecution witnesses, hitmen and with saying he has a “covertly recorded” phone convo: Prominent private individual in Ph brought witnesses, docs to ICC investigators

Kaufman finished with: Asking the pre-trial court to give “negligible weight” to two star prosecution witnesses because they were “ruthless criminals”, or hitmen and … with saying he has a “covertly recorded” telephone conversation of a prominent private individual who said that “they (govt/ investigators/ witnesses) cooperate through me because I don’t have a position in government…” Kaufman said the ICC investigators gave this individual a list of names of potential witnesses and of documents they needed and this individual, after coordinating with government agencies, brought these to the ICC investigators…

And that concludes the defense on pre-trial.

Hwag ka mag-ri-react.

Ho—oooold it….

Hold it.

Don’t react.

… trying to shock the judges or to provoke a statement or reaction from them that he can use …

to have them disqualified…

or to ask for a mistrial, etc …