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Ever Emporium vs Judge Bonifacio Sanz Maceda, et al

EVER EMPORIUM, INC. Complainant, versus JUDGE BONIFACIO SANZ MACEDA, Executive Judge, RTC Branch 275, Las Pi?as City, and ATTY. EDGAR ALLAN MORANTE, Branch Clerk of Court, Respondents.

A.M. No. RTJ-04-1881 (Formerly OCA IPI No. 01-1283-RTJ) | 2004-10-14

D E C I S I O N 

CALLEJO, SR., J.:


   The instant consolidated administrative cases involve Executive Judge Bonifacio Sanz Maceda and former Branch Clerk of Court Atty. Edgar Allan Morante, both of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 275, Las Piñas City, for gross violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct and for serious or grave misconduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.

   In a Letter[1] dated September 3, 2001 addressed to the Chief Justice, Atty. Racquel Crisologo-Lara, Clerk of Court VI, Office of the Clerk of Court, RTC, Las Piñas City, narrated the following events that gave rise to the...