The Olongapo Regional Trial Court Branch 74 convicted US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton guilty of homicide. He was sentenced to six to 12 years imprisonment, but the camp of slain transgender woman Jennifer Laude took it as a “bittersweet” ruling.

The court ruled that the killing of Laude amounted only to homicide and did not meet the standards for murder because Pemberton acted out of "passion and obfuscation."

Still, persecution lawyer Harry Roque disagreed, saying, "It is not right that these mitigating circumstances showed his bigotry towards a transgender woman and that the bigotry itself was the reason he killed her."

However, President Rodrigo Duterte exercised one of his special powers as a chief executive in the Philippines and shocked everyone when he granted the convicted killer an absolute pardon. 

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