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Floresta vs Ubiadas

PROV. PROSECUTOR DORENTINO Z. FLORESTA, Complainant, versus Judge ELIODORO G. UBIADAS, Regional Trial Court, Olongapo City, Branch 72 Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-03-1774 (Formerly AM OCA IPI 00-895-RTJ) | 2004-05-27

D E C I S I O N



CARPIO MORALES, J.:



By a Sworn Complaint[1] dated January 24, 2000, then Provincial Prosecutor, now Regional Trial Court Judge Dorentino Z. Floresta (complainant) administratively charged Judge Eliodoro G. Ubiadas of the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 72 with "gross ignorance of [the] law, grave abuse of authority and violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct.""







Complainant faults respondent for dismissing for lack of jurisdiction, on motion of the accused, by Order[2] of July 9, 1997, Crim. Case No. 212-97, People of the Philippines v. Chia Say Chaw, et al., for illegal entry.



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