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Jose Bacar, et al. vs. Salvador P. De Guzman, Jr.

SPOUSES JOSE and TRINIDAD BACAR, complainants vs. JUDGE SALVADOR P. DE GUZMAN, JR., respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-96-1349 | 1997-04-18

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

In this petition by way of complaint, dated 11 April 1994, petitioner-spouses Jose and Trinidad Bacar pray for the dismissal from the service of respondent Judge Salvador P. de Guzman, Jr., presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court of Makati, Branch 142, on the grounds of: 1) gross ignorance of the law, and; 2) rendering an unjust judgment in Criminal Cases Nos. 89-1360 and 89-2878 for homicide and attempted homicide respectively, both entitled "People of the Philippines v. Gerardo Fortaleza Marcial".

The antecedent facts are as follows:

On 30 March 1989, an information for homicide (for the death of one...