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Sps Lorena vs Judge Encomienda, MTC-Pagbilao

Spouses GREGORIO LORENA and TERESITA LORENA, complainants, vs. JUDGE ADOLFO V. ENCOMIENDA, Municipal Trial Court Pagbilao, Quezon, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-99-1177 | 1999-02-08

R E S O L U T I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

The serious nature of the tasks of judges requires them to be circumspect in both their public and their private dealings. As they are "expected to rise above human frailties," they must, in all of their activities, avoid not only impropriety but even the appearance of impropriety.

The Facts

Spouses Gregorio and Teresita Lorena, in a sworn letter-complaint1 [Dated July 22, 1997.] received by the Office of the Court Administrator on August 5, 1997, charged Judge Adolfo V. Encomienda of the Municipal Trial Court of Pagbilao, Quezon, with grave abuse of authority. The letter-complaint reads as follows:...