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FR. MICHAEL SINNOTT, ERLINDA PEDRANO PINGKIAN, ROSITA PEDRANO-LOPEZ, ALFREDO PEDRANO, ANTONIO PEDRANO, CARINO PEDRANO, CORAZON MENDOZA, VIRGINIA BALING-PESTA?AS vs. JUDGE RECAREDO P. BARTE, Regional Trial Court, Branch 29, Zamboanga del Sur

FR. MICHAEL SINNOTT, ERLINDA PEDRANO PINGKIAN, ROSITA PEDRANO-LOPEZ, ALFREDO PEDRANO, ANTONIO PEDRANO, CARINO PEDRANO, CORAZON MENDOZA, VIRGINIA BALING-PESTA?AS, complainants, vs. JUDGE RECAREDO P. BARTE, Regional Trial Court, Branch 29, Zamboanga del Sur, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-99-1453 | 2001-12-14

R E S O L U T I O N

PARDO, J.:

The case under consideration is an administrative complaint against Judge Recaredo P. Barte, Regional Trial Court, Zamboanga del Sur, Branch 29 for bias and partiality for the acquittal of Nenito Gadonan, accused in a double murder case in the sala of respondent judge.

In the early morning of February 25, 1992, Demetria Pedrano, a lay leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Barrio Laperian, Zamboanga del Sur left her house in Laperian to pay her land taxes in Poblacion, San Miguel. When she returned to her house that afternoon, she was shot in the mouth by one of three men waiting for her at her residence....