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ATTY. EDGAR H. TALINGDAN vs. JUDGE HENEDINO P. EDUARTE, RTC-Br. 20, Cauayan, Isabela

ATTY. EDGAR H. TALINGDAN, complainant, vs. JUDGE HENEDINO P. EDUARTE, RTC-Br. 20, Cauayan, Isabela, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-01-1610 | 2001-10-05

R E S O L U T I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

Atty. Edgar H. Talingdan, a private practitioner, charges respondent Judge Henedino P. Eduarte, RTC-Br. 20, Cauayan, Isabela, with improvidently issuing a warrant of arrest in Crim. Case No. Br. 20-1373 for libel without the requisite preliminary investigation being first conducted by the Office of the Public Prosecutor.

Specifically, complainant alleged in his Letter-Complaint dated 14 June 2000 that sometime in April 2000 elements of the PNP Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya stormed into his residence to arrest him and his client, Modesto Luzano, on the strength of a Warrant of Arrest dated 12 April 2000[1]...