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PEOPLE vs. Gloriosa S. Navarro

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner vs. HON. GLORIOSA S. NAVARRO, as Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch 20, Naga City respondent.

G.R. No. 96229 | 1997-03-25

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

In remanding the complaint or information to the provincial prosecutor, may a regional trial court judge name or designate a particular assistant prosecutor to conduct the preliminary investigation of the case?

This is the main question raised in this special civil action for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court assailing the Order dated June 18, 1990, as well as the other orders dated July 6, 1990, August 28, 1990 and September 6, 1990 issued by Respondent Judge Gloriosa S. Navarro. 1

The impugned Order dated June 18, 1990, the tenor of which was repeated in the subsequent orders,...