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Socorro Hoehne vs Judge Ruben Plata

SOCORRO R. HOEHNE, complainant, vs. JUDGE RUBEN R. PLATA, respondent.

MTJ-02-1458 | 2002-10-10

R E S O L U T I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

On 4 August 1999, the Office of the Court Administrator received the letter-complaint of complainant Socorro Hoehne charging respondent Judge Ruben R. Plata, Presiding Judge of Branch 1, Municipal Trial Court in Cities of Santiago City, with delay in resolving the motion for execution she filed in Civil Case No. I-261. The case is for a sum of money and damages.

The procedural and factual antecedents in this matter are as follows:

On 13 February 1995, respondent Judge Plata rendered in Civil Case No. I-261 a decision ordering the defendants Dr. Filipinas Abundo and Atty. Marino A. Abundo, Sr., to...