Prosecutors: No reply to Duterte’s response

(UPDATE) THE House of Representatives’ prosecution team in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte deemed it “unnecessary” to reply to Duterte’s answer to the charges she faces. “Under the applicable rules, the allegations and defenses in the Answer are deemed controverted even without a Reply. More fundamentally, the Answer raises no material factual issue that requires a responsive pleading. It does not meaningfully engage the factual allegations in t