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Office of the Court Administrator vs. Judge Florentino V. Floro, Jr.

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Petitioner vs. JUDGE FLORENTINO V. FLORO, JR., Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-99-1460 | 2006-03-31

EN BANC
 
 
D E C I S I O N
 
CHICO-NAZARIO, J.:
 
"Equity does not demand that its suitors shall have led blameless lives."
 
Justice Brandeis, Loughran v. Loughran[1]
 
THE CASES

The First Case: A.M. No. RTJ-99-1460 (Office of the Court Administrator v. Judge Florentino V. Floro, Jr.)

It was in 1995 that Atty. Florentino V. Floro, Jr. first applied for judgeship. A pre-requisite psychological evaluation on him then by the Supreme Court Clinic Services (SC Clinic) revealed "(e)vidence of ego disintegration' and "developing psychotic process." Judge Floro later voluntarily withdrew his...