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Edmundo & Carmelita Balderama vs Judge Adolfo F. Alagar

EDMUNDO & CARMELITA BALDERAMA, complainants, vs. JUDGE ADOLFO F. ALAGAR, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-99-1449 | 2002-01-18

R E S O L U T I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

On April 7, 1997, Spouses Edmundo and Carmelita Balderama filed a letter-complaint dated March 21, 1997 against respondent Judge Adolfo Alagar of the Regional Trial Court, San Fernando City, La Union, Branch 66 with the Office of the Court Administrator for partiality and bias and impropriety.[1]

In their complaint, they alleged that they are the accused in Criminal Case No. 4252, entitled "People of the Philippines vs. Spouses Edmundo and Carmelita Balderama" for Estafa thru Falsification of Public Documents pending before Judge Alagar. In one occasion, Judge Alagar called them together with their...