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Evelyn De Austria vs Judge Beltran RTC4

EVELYN DE AUSTRIA, complainant, vs. JUDGE ORLANDO D. BELTRAN, Acting Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch IV, Tuguegarao, Cagayan, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-98-1406 | 1999-09-01

R E S O L U T I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

In an administrative complaint received on November 18, 1996, by the Office of the Court Adminitrator complainant Evelyn De Austria charged respondent Judge Orlando D. Beltran, Acting Presiding Judge of Branch IV of the Regional Trial Court of Tuguegarao, Cagayan, with "gross ignorance of the law and/or negligence, and manifest partiality" for the accused in Criminal cases No. 6263, 6264, and 6315.

Complainant is the sister of Evangeline and Eduardo, both surnamed De austria, who were killed on September 3, 1993 allegedly by one Tomas Bariuan. A complaint for double murder was filed against Bariuan...