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Paterno Plantilla vs Rodrigo Baliwag

PATERNO R. PLANTILLA, complainant, vs. RODRIGO G. BALIWAG, Sheriff IV, Regional Trial Court of San Pablo City (Branch 30), respondent.

A.M. No. P-00-1446 | 2001-06-06

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J.:

Before placing a writ of execution in the hands of a sheriff, the judge issuing the writ - not the sheriff enforcing it - must compute to the last centavo the exact amounts due thereunder, including interests, costs, damages, rents or profits. For determining the rate of interest himself, respondent sheriff must be sanctioned.

The Case

Before us is an Administrative Complaint filed by retired Col. Paterno R. Plantilla, charging Rodrigo G. Baliwag (Sheriff IV, Regional Trial Court of San Pablo City, Branch 30), with serious irregularities in the implementation of the Writ of Execution dated January 16,...