By Francis Wakefield Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana Wednesday said that the defense department will take it "one step at a time" before making a decision to resume court-martial proceedings against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana  (Czar Dancel/ Manila Bulletin) Lorenzana made the remark a day after Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Executive Judge Elmo Alameda issued a warrant of arrest against Trillanes on rebellion charges. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Jose Balajadia said Chief Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar, National Capital Regional Police Office director, served the arrest warrant. Trillanes, who voluntarily went with the arresting officers, was taken to the Makati Police Station for booking procedures. He later proceeded to the Makati RTC Branch 150 to post P200,000 bail, prompting Judge Alameda to order his release. Lorenzana, however, said that it is best for them to wait for the Supreme Court to decide on the legality of President Rodrigo Duterte's proclamation voiding Senator Trillanes' amnesty before making any move. He said that court martial proceedings will remain on hold in the absence of any SC decision. "We will take this one step at a time baka technical tayo (we may suffer technicalities). So arrest muna then wait for further development. (The arrest warrant is already there so we will wait for further development)," Lorenzana said. The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed the motion after President Duterte issued Proclamation No. 572, which declared as “void ab initio” or void from the start the amnesty given to Trillanes over his involvement in the 2003 Oakwood mutiny and the 2007 Peninsula Manila siege. The Makati RTC Branch 150 is handling the rebellion case against Trillanes over his involvement in the Oakwood mutiny. In his order dated Sept. 25, Judge Alameda said, “the prosecution’s Omnibus Motion dated September 7, 2018 for issuance of Warrant of Arrest and Hold-Departure Order against Sen. Antonio F. Trillanes IV is granted.” The DOJ has a similar pending motion before Makati RTC Branch 148, which is handling the coup d’etat case over the lawmaker’s involvement in the Oakwood mutiny. Earlier, the chief of the Department of National Defense (DND) Internal Audit Service Atty. Ronald Patrick Rubin said that the jurisdiction of the court-martial was established or was acquired during the time that Senator Trillanes was still active in the military service. Rubin said even though Trillanes is already retired, court-martial proceedings have to continue considering that the amnesty granted to him has been revoked by President Duterte.