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Priscilla Castillo Vda. De Mijares vs. Onofre A. Villaluz

PRISCILLA CASTILLO VDA. DE MIJARES, complainant vs. JUSTICE ONOFRE A. VILLALUZ (Retired), respondent.

A.C. No. 4431 | 1997-06-19

D E C I S I O N

REGALADO, J:

Doubly distressing as the subject of administrative recourse to this Court is the present case where the cause celebre is a star-crossed marriage, and the unlikely protagonists are an incumbent and a retired member of the Judiciary.

In a sworn complaint for disbarment filed with this Court on June 6, 1995, complainant Judge Priscilla Castillo Vda. de Mijares charged respondent Onofre A. Villaluz, a retired Justice of the Court of Appeals, with gross immorality and grave misconduct. 1

After an answer 2 and a reply 3 were respectively filed by respondent and complainant, the Court, in its Resolution dated February...