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Rosalia Docena-Caspe vs Judge Arnulfo Bugtas, RTC, Branch II, Borongan, Eastern Samar

ROSALIA DOCENA-CASPE, complainant, vs. judge ARNULFO O. BUGTAS, Regional Trial Court, Branch II, Borongan, Eastern Samar, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ- 03-1767 | 2003-03-28

R E S O L U T I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

The refusal or failure of the prosecution to adduce evidence or to interpose objection to a petition for bail will not dispense with the conduct of a bail hearing.[1] Neither may reliance to a previous order granting bail justify the absence of a hearing in a subsequent petition for bail,[2] more so where said order relied upon was issued without hearing and while the accused was at large.[3]

The instant administrative case for gross ignorance of the law and incompetence against respondent judge stemmed from a murder case filed against accused Celso Docil and Juan Docil for the death of Lucio...