Manila, Sept. 8 -- The prosecution panel moved to cut weeks off the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte by asking her camp to admit or deny key facts on bank records already submitted to the Impeachment Court.

House of Representatives prosecutor, Akbayan Party-list Rep. Chel Diokno, told the Senate impeachment court on Tuesday that the prosecution filed a written request for admission, a procedural move aimed at narrowing the fight over financial records and avoiding the need to call more witnesses if the basic facts are not genuinely disputed.

Rule 26, which was discussed in court, covers requests to admit the genuineness of relevant documents or the truth of material facts and provides for a sworn response within the peri...