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Engineer Fernando S. Dizon vs. Lilia C. Lopez

ENGINEER FERNANDO S. DIZON, complainant vs. JUDGE LILIA C. LOPEZ, Regional Trial Court, Branch 109, Pasay City, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-96-1338 | 1997-09-05

D E C I S I O N


MENDOZA, J.:

This is a complaint charging Judge Lilia C. Lopez of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 109, Pasay City, with violation of the Constitution, serious misconduct, inefficiency, and falsification in connection with her decision in Criminal Case No. 91-0716 entitled "People of the Philippines v. Engineer Fernando S. Dizon."

It appears that on April 22, 1993, judgment was rendered, convicting complainant of falsification of private document. The promulgation of the judgment consisted of reading the dispositive portion of the decision sentencing him to imprisonment, without serving a copy of the decision on him....