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SPOUSES HERMINIO and MILA DIZON and SPOUSES NOEL and LILIA ZAMORA vs. HON. DEMETRIO D. CALIMAG, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Santiago City, Branch 35

SPOUSES HERMINIO and MILA DIZON and SPOUSES NOEL and LILIA ZAMORA, complainants, vs. HON. DEMETRIO D. CALIMAG, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Santiago City, Branch 35, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-99-1472 | 2001-09-20

R E S O L U T I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

In a sworn complaint dated July 27, 1998, complainants Mila Dizon and Lilia Zamora charged Judge Demetrio D. Calimag of the Regional Trial Court of Santiago City, Branch 35 with grave misconduct and/or gross ignorance of the law relative to Criminal Cases Nos. 2565-66, both for illegal possession of firearms, as well as Criminal Case No. 2581 for grave threats.

Complainants allege that they are the respective wives of Herminio Dizon and Noel Zamora. They aver that on May 15, 1998, an information for violation of P.D. No. 1866, as amended by R.A. No. 8294, docketed as Criminal Case No. 2565, was filed...