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Office of the Court Administrator Vs. Marianito C. Santos, Presiding Judge, MeTC, Branch 57, San Juan City

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Complainant, versus MARIANITO C. SANTOS, Presiding Judge, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 57, San Juan City, Respondent

A.M. No. MTJ-11-1787 | 2012-10-11

THIRD DIVISION

DECISION

MENDOZA, J.:

The matter before this Court is an administrative case against Judge Marianito C. Santos (Judge Santos), Presiding Judge of Metropolitan Trial Court, San Juan City, Branch 57 (MeTC), who accumulated 294 undecided cases outside the required period of disposition.

In a Letter, dated May 5, 2008,1 Judge Santos requested from the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) additional time to try and decide two election cases, namely: (a) Special Proceedings No. 2007-02 (Election Protest No. 2007-02) filed by a certain Felicisimo Gavino against Raymundo Jucutan; and (b) Special Proceedings...