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HEINZ R. HECK, COMPLAINANT, VS. CITY PROSECUTOR CASIANO A. GAMOTIN, JR., RESPONDENT.

HEINZ R. HECK, COMPLAINANT, VS. CITY PROSECUTOR CASIANO A. GAMOTIN, JR., RESPONDENT.

A.C. No. 5329 | 2014-03-18

EN BANC
 
D E C I S I O N
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
 
This administrative complaint was brought against a City Prosecutor whose manner of dealing with the complainant, a foreigner, had offended the latter. We dismiss the complaint because of the complainant’s failure to prove that the respondent thereby breached any canon of professional conduct or legal ethics. Indeed, every lawyer who is administratively charged is presumed innocent of wrongdoing.

In September 2000, complainant Heinz Heck filed a complaint for disbarment against then City Prosecutor Casiano A. Gamotin of Cagayan de Oro City. According to Heck, he was a victim of the...