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Vidala Saceda vs Judge Gerardo Gestopa, Jr

VIDALA SACEDA, complainant, vs. JUDGE GERARDO E. GESTOPA, JR., Acting Presiding Judge, Municipal Trial Court in Cities, Cebu City, Branch 4,[1] respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-00-1303 | 2001-12-13

R E S O L U T I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

For resolution is the administrative complaint referred by the Office of the Ombudsman (Visayas), in a letter received by the Office of the Court Administrator on September 21, 1998, pursuant to Section 23 (2) of Republic Act No. 6770 or the Ombudsman Act of 1989.

The complaint stemmed from a case for ejectment filed by complainant Vidala Saceda against Norberto and Juanito Baguio, docketed as Civil Case No. R-35568 and assigned to the sala of respondent Judge Gerardo E. Gestopa, Jr., then acting presiding judge of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities, Cebu City, Branch 4.[2] Complainant alleges that...