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OCA Vs. Lorenzo

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Complainant, versus JUDGE RODRIGO B. LORENZO, RTC, Branch 266, Pasig City, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-05-1911 [Formerly A.M. OCA I.P.I. No. 02-9-540-RTC] | 2008-12-23

D E C I S I O N


VELASCO, JR., J.:

These consolidated administrative cases involve the release on bail of three Filipinos caught while in the act of sniffing methylamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) and five Chinese nationals arrested while manufacturing shabu. The apprehension was effected on November 6, 2001 during a raid in a makeshift illegal drugs laboratory in Barangay Capitolyo, Pasig City.

In A.M. No. RTJ-05-1911, the Court, reacting to news items appearing on page 12 of The Philippine Star in its April 18, 2002 issue[1] and the editorial in its April 21, 2002 issue entitled Sino 'shabu makers' freed on bail,[2] issued a...