Court Script PDF
Court Script PDF
Court Script PDF
People of the Philippines versus Bravo for (Rape through sexual assault)
prosecution
Prosecutor : For the prosecution, your honor , representing the people of the Philippines
Private prosecutor: I am (name) your honor acting as private prosecutor under the direct control and
supervision of the public prosecutor
Defense
Atty.: For the defense, your honor, representing the accused. I am atty. (name), lead defense counsel
and together with my co counsel
Arraignment
(accused comes near the clerk,beside the defense panel. Defense lawyers stand beside the accused
during arraignment)
Clerk of court: You are the accused in criminal case no. 12345 entitled people of the Philippines versus
bravo and the information charges, You of the crime of rape through sexual assault committed as
follows: on October -------....
“contrary to law”
Clerk of court: What is your plea?
Clerk: The accused enters the plea of not guilty, your honor
Pre-trial
Plea bargaining
Melyn: are the parties willing to agree to enter into a plea bargaining?
PROSECUTION
prosecutor: your honor please the prosecution does not desire to enter into plea of bargaining
Defense lawyer: YHP the defense not also desire to enter to plea bargaining.
P: Now will you please describe to us how your father fingered your vagina on the night of October 14,
1998?
P: which finger?
P: And aside from that,what else happened on that night of October 14,1998?
P: when your father was doing that to you,what did you do?
P: while your father was inserting his finger into your vagina,what did you feel?
Castillo: There are other rooms but we only sleep in one room.
Judge: You are telling this court then that your father, Your brother and sister and you were all sleeping
in one room?
Judge: Okay,Continue.
Judge: Cross?
Atty.: Ms. Castillo how was he able to kiss you, undress you and do what you said your father did to you
on that night of October 14, 2017 when you all of you were sleeping in one room.
Judge: Re-direct?
Ms. Castillo: From the window of the courtroom up to the edge of the witness box and from the wall to
the left up to the wall to the right.
Prosecutor: So yourself, your brother, and your sister, and the three of you slept on the upper deck
while your mother and father are slept on the lower deck in your room on that night of October 14,
2017.
Prosecutor: And who was with you you on the upper deck of that double deck bed inside the room
before your father kissed your lips on that night of October 14, 2017.
Prosecutor: So, while you were sleeping on the night of October 14, 2017 you are awaken because your
father started kissing you?
Judge: Sustained
Prosecutor: While you were sleeping on the night of October 14, 2017 what happen?
Ms. Castillo: We were at the other end of the bed and he asked them to go to the other end of the bed.
Judge: Continue.
Prosecutor: And you said your father inserted his finger into your vagina, will you describe to us how he
did that?
Prosecution: What was the position of your body when he did that?
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Prosecutor: What was the position of your body aside from your legs open.
Prosecutor: When your father told you to spread your legs, did you spread your legs?
Ms. Castillo: I was trying to close my legs but he was forcing it.
Prosecutor: Aside from trying to close your legs, what else did you do if any?
Prosecutor: Aside from trying to push him, what did you do if any?
Prosecutor: Now, you said your father spread your legs apart and inserted finger into your vagina on
that night on that October 14, 2017. When your legs were already spread apart, will you describe to us
how your father inserted your finger at the vagina?
Prosecutor: And after he kneeled between your legs , what happened next?
Ms. Castillo: That is all, sir.
Prosecutor: What did you feel in your vagina when your father kneeled between your legs?
Prosecutor: You said you felt pain when he insert his finger into your vagina, when you felt pain, what
did you do?
Castillo: I turned my back and put on my short and panty. And I cried sir.
Prosecutor: And when you turned your back and then put on your clothes and you cried, what did your
father do?
Judge: How about your brother and sister, where were they at this time?
Prosecutor: How far were your brother and sister from you while your father was on top of you on that
night of October 14, 2017.
Ms. Castillo: They were just at the other end of the bed.
Prosecutor: With that situation that your brother and sister were at your paanan, which you mentioned
in tagalog, what else did they do, if any, aside from crying?
Prosecutor: By the way, on the night of October 14, 2016, do you know if your mother was awakened?
Judge: Reform. Where was your mother on the night of October 14, 2016?
Judge: Re-cross?
Atty Tibe: Since at this point, your mother was already there, why did you not shout?
Ms. Castillo: Whenever I call my mother, Nang, Nang, at night my mother thought I only ask to help me
to go to c.r to urinate.
Atty Tibe: So whenever you call your mother to help you to go to the c.r she is awaken to help you?
Judge: Redirect?
Prosecutor Jel: Ms. Castillo, the next morning after this incident, did you tell to your mother what
happened at the night of October14, 2016?
Ms.Castillo: Because my father warned me not to tell to my mother or else he going to kill me, my sister,
my brother, and my mother.
Prosecutor: Then how did you mother know the incident? Ms. Castillo.
Ms. Castillo: My brother told to my mother that my father going something bad to me.
Judge: Sustained
Prosecutor: What happened next after your mother discovered the incident?
Ms. Castillo: She confronted me about it and I told her what happened and also told her that warned me
to kill us.
Atty Tibe: for the defense, we are ready to present our witness your honor.
Judge: Proceed.
Interpreter: Do you swear to tell the truth, all the truth and nothing but the the truth in this case?
Atty Tibe: Where are you on October 14, 2016 at around 10;00 pm.
Atty Tibe: What are you doing at that time, can you narrate it in this court?
Witness: We were already sleep at the time of 10;00 pm sir, and I wake up at around 6;00 am to prepare
food for the children.
Atty Tibe: In short Mr. Bravo you not awake at around 10;00 pm or on before sunrise?
Judge: Cross?
Prosecutor: Mr. Bravo, did you waken and ask your son and your younger daughter to leave and transfer
at the upper deck on October 14, 2017 at around 10:00 pm?