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Judge Crispin B. Bravo vs. Atty. Miguel C. Morales.

JUDGE CRISPIN B. BRAVO, Complainant, versus ATTY. MIGUEL C. MORALES, Branch Clerk of Court, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 17 (now detailed with OCC), Manila, Respondent.

A.M. No. P-05-1950 (Formerly OCA I.P.I. No. 04-1898-P) | 2006-08-30

SECOND DIVISION
 
R E S O L U T I O N 
 
GARCIA, J.: 
 
These consolidated administrative cases which are in the nature of a charge and countercharge sprang from the same incident. In A.M. No. P-05-1950, Judge Crispin B. Bravo, Presiding Judge, Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) of Manila, Branch 16, charges his former branch clerk of court, Atty. Miguel C. Morales, now detailed with the Office of the Clerk of Court, MeTC, Manila, with grave misconduct and conduct unbecoming a public officer. In A.M. No. MTJ-1612, on the other hand, Atty. Morales charges Judge Bravo with grave abuse of authority, slander, harassment, grave...