MANILA, Philippines—The camp of Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged mastermind behind the P10-billion pork barrel scam, asked the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) on Wednesday to defer her arraignment and suspend the proceedings on the serious illegal detention charges filed against her and her brother. Napoles filed the 22-page urgent motion in the Makati RTC Branch 150 through the Kapunan Garcia and Castillo law firm, seeking to reverse the earlier order of Judge Elmo Alameda that set the date of her arraignment on Sept. 9 at 1:30 p.m. Napoles' lawyers argued that there were still motions filed in court that had yet to be resolved, including a motion for b...
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