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Office Of The Court Administrator Vs. Walerico B. Butalid

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, complainant, vs. JUDGE WALERICO B. BUTALID, Regional Trial Court, Branch 9, Tacloban City, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-96-1337 | 1998-08-05

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

Respondent is Judge of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 9, Tacloban City. These are two (2) administrative cases filed against him for (1) serious misconduct, negligence, and inefficiency for failure to decide, in A.M. No. RTJ-96-1337, 27 cases and, in A.M. No. 97-8-242-RTC, 69 cases, or a total of 96 cases, within the 90-day reglementary period, and (2) falsification of public documents for falsely stating in the certificates of service submitted by him covering the period July 1994 to December 1995 that he had decided within the prescribed period all cases submitted to him for resolution in order to be able...