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Fidel D. Aquino vs Atty. Oscar Manese

FIDEL D. AQUINO, COMPLAINANT, VS. ATTY. OSCAR MANESE, RESPONDENT.

A.C. No. 4958 | 2003-04-03

D E C I S I O N

CARPIO-MORALES, J.:

In a sworn letter-complaint[1] (in Tagalog) dated September 7, 1998 addressed to the Office of the President which forwarded it to the Office of the Court Administrator, Fidel D. Aquino (complainant) of Pinasling, Gerona, Tarlac charged Atty. Oscar Manese (respondent) with falsification of public document for preparing and notarizing a Deed of Absolute Sale[2] dated September 15, 1994 which could not have been executed and sworn to by Lilia D. Cardona, one of the therein three vendors-signatories, she having died on November 25, 1990[3] or four (4) years earlier.

Complainant alleges that, inter alia,...