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Luciana Vda. De Arago vs. Paterno T. Alvarez

LUCIANA VDA. DE ARAGO, complainant vs. JUDGE PATERNO T. ALVAREZ, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-89-318 | 1997-03-25

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

This is an administrative complaint filed on 17 April 1989 by Mrs. Luciana Vda. de Arago against Judge Paterno T. Alvarez, Presiding Judge of Branch II, Regional Trial Court, Borongan, Eastern Samar, for grave misconduct in office and corrupt practices. The sworn complaint 1 alleges that respondent judge on several occasions demanded and actually received from complainant and her in-laws the sum of seventeen thousand pesos (P17,000.00) in consideration of promised positive results in Criminal Case No. (88-56) 046, entitled People of the Philippines v. Ricardo Ador, et al. for Robbery with Homicide, and in...