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Sps Prescilo and Gomersinda Tagaloguin vs Conrado V. Hingco, Jr

Spouses PRESCILO and GOMERSINDA TAGALOGUIN, Complainants, versus CONRADO V. HINGCO JR., Deputy Sheriff IV, Regional Trial Court (Branch 7), Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Respondent.

A.M. No. P-05-2008 (formerly AM OCA-IPI No. 99-710-P) | 2005-06-21

D E C I S I O N 


PANGANIBAN, J.: 

As court employees, sheriffs are obliged to conduct themselves with propriety and decorum and to ensure that their actions are above suspicion at all times. The Court cannot countenance -- it in fact condemns -- any conduct, act or omission that violates the norm of public accountability and diminishes, or even just tends to diminish, the faith of the people in the judiciary. 

The Case and the Facts 

This case originated from a Complaint[1] filed with the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) on July 9, 1999, by Spouses Prescilo and Gomersinda Tagaloguin against Sheriff IV Conrado V....