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Atty Teresita Reyes-Domingo vs Miguel Morales

ATTY. TERESITA REYES-DOMINGO, Senior State Prosecutor, Department of Justice, complainant, vs. Branch Clerk of Court, MIGUEL C. MORALES, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 17, Manila, respondents.

A.M. No. P-99-1285 | 2000-10-04

R E S O L U T I O N


YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

On December 10, 1996, the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) received an affidavit-complaint from Atty. Teresita B. Domingo[1] charging Branch Clerk of Court Miguel C. Morales[2] with dishonesty and grave misconduct.

Complainant alleges that on May 10, 1996, a Friday, at about 4:00 p.m. instead of being at his office, respondent was at Katarungan Village interfering with the construction of the Sports Complex thereat and that on May 13, 1996, a Monday, respondent again, instead of being at his office, was at the DENR-NCR Office at Quezon City. These absences were allegedly not indicated by...