Day 7: A fiery opening salvo

TEN minutes into Day 7 of the Corona Impeachment trial, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago lashed out at prosecution lawyer Arthur Lim failure to give prompt, direct answers to a crucial question she raised: Is the prosecution “charging the respondent with graft and corruption under Impeachment Article II”.

Instead of giving a plain yes or no, which the Senator-Judge had expected him to do, Lim began his answer with the phrase “Let me point out…”, which sent Defensor-Santiago shooting her famous (or infamous) verbal tirades at the prosecution counsel.

Santiago warned Lim that she would ask her colleagues to inhibit the later from further appearing in the trial proceedings if he “continued with such colloquy”.