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Community Rural Bank of Guimba, Inc. vs. Judge Tomas B. Talavera

COMMUNITY RURAL BANK OF GUIMBA (N. E.), INC., Represented by OLGA M. SAMSON, Complainant, versus Judge TOMAS B. TALAVERA, Regional Trial Court (Branch 28), Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-05-1909 | 2005-04-06

D E C I S I O N 


PANGANIBAN, J.: 

 The Constitution expects judges to be embodiments of competence, integrity, probity and independence. They must personify four ins; namely, integrity, independence, industry and intelligence.[1] Their judgments must be characterized by excellence, their conduct by ethics, and their outlook by eternity. They are not common individuals whose gross errors "men forgive and time forgets." 

The Case and the Facts 

 In a Complaint-Affidavit dated June 24, 2003, the Community Rural Bank of Guimba (N. E.), Inc. -- through its chief operating officer, Olga M. Samson -- charged Judge...