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Vicente Jimenez, et al. vs Eulogio Tolentino, Jr., et al

VICENTE C. JIMENEZ, EUGENIO BERNARDO, and VENERANDO R. HABER, Petitioners, versus EULOGIO TOLENTINO, JR., LETICIA TOLENTINO, GRAFT INVESTIGATION OFFICER II THELMA CRUZ, and JOSE O. MONTERO, JR., OMB PROSECUTOR II, Respondents.

G.R. No. 153578 | 2005-01-28



SECOND DIVISION
DECISION

CHICO-NAZARIO, J.:

In this petition for review on certiorari, petitioners seek the reversal of the Court of Appeals Decision[1] promulgated on 18 October 2001 dismissing petitioners’ petition for certiorari as well as the same court’s Resolution[2] of 08 May 2002 denying petitioners’ motion for reconsideration.  The petition before the Court of Appeals was for the nullification of the Office of the Ombudsman’s findings of probable cause for violation of Section 3(e) of Republic Act No. 3019.

The generative facts of the case, as summarized by the Court of Appeals, are as follows:[3]

(1)   Dolores Banzon,...