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OCA vs. Morante [DECISION]

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, complainant, vs. ATTY. EDGAR ALLAN C. MORANTE, Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Las Pi?as City, Branch 275, respondent.

A.M. No. P-02-1555 | 2004-04-16

D E C I S I O N
 
PER CURIAM:
 
This case stemmed from an anonymous letter dated September 10, 2001 addressed to the Chief Justice from “CONCERNED LAW PRACTITIONERS.”[1] The letter brought to his attention the alleged corrupt acts/practices of respondent Edgar Allan Morante, Branch Clerk of Court of the Regional Trial Court, Las Piñas City, Branch 275. Attached to the letter was a news clipping that appeared in the September 10, 2001 issue of The Metro Daily Tribune, entitled “NBI Agents Nab Las Piñas Clerk of Court for Extort.”[2] The news item reported that the respondent “was...