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Felicidad Dadizon vs Judge Aniceto Lirios

FELICIDAD B. DADIZON, complainant, vs. JUDGE ANICETO A. LIRIOS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURT, NAVAL, BILIRAN, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-00-1295 | 2000-08-01

D E C I S I O N

GONZAGA-REYES, J.:

Herein complainant, Felicidad B. Dadizon was one of the complaining witnesses in Criminal Case No. 3031, a prosecution for Falsification of a Public Document penalized under Article 172, paragraph 1 and 3 of the Revised Penal Code which respondent Judge Aniceto A. Lirios of the Municipal Trial Court of Naval, Biliran tried and decided.

In the present administrative case, complainant charges respondent Judge with ignorance of the law and rendering a judgment not based on the law when he imposed upon the accused therein Pablo Suzon a straight penalty of imprisonment of seven (7) months and a fine of one...