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Atty. Jerome Norman L. Tacorda for: Odel L. Gedraga Vs. Judge Reynaldo B. Clemens, presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Br. 31, Calbayog City, Western Samar

ATTY. JEROME NORMAN L. TACORDA for: ODELL. GEDRAGA, Complainant, vs. JUDGE REYNALDO B. CLEMENS, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-13-2359 | 2013-10-23

FIRST DIVISION

RESOLUTION

SERENO, CJ:

The instant case stems from a Complaint-Affidavit dated 21 February 2012 filed by Atty. Jerome Norman Labor Tacorda (Atty. Tacorda) charging Judge Reynaldo B. Clemens (Judge Clemens), Presiding Judge of Regional Trial Court ofCalbayog City, Branch 31, Western Samar for gross ignorance of the law and alleged violation of the Child.Witness Examination Rule.

In the Complaint-Affidavit, Atty. Tacorda claimed that on 19 January 2012, he presented Odel Gedraga ( Gedraga) as witness, then fi tleen (I 5) years old, in Criminal Case No. 6433 entitled "People of the Philippines...