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FRUMENCIO E. PULGAR, PETITIONER, VS. PAUL M. RESURRECCION AND MARICAR M. EUGENIO, RESPONDENTS.

FRUMENCIO E. PULGAR, PETITIONER, VS. PAUL M. RESURRECCION AND MARICAR M. EUGENIO, RESPONDENTS.

A.M. No. P-09-2673 (A.M. OCA IPI No. 00-857-P) | 2014-10-21

EN BANC
 
D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

Any employee or official of the Judiciary who usurps the functions of another employee or official, or illegally exacts money from law practitioners and litigants is guilty of grave misconduct, and may be dismissed from the service even for the first offense.

The Charge
 
In his complaint-affidavit dated March 15, 2000, Atty. Frumencio E. Pulgar denounced Court Interpreter Paul M. Resurreccion of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 276, in Muntinlupa City, for committing acts of extortion, illegal exaction, and blackmail by using his position to extort money from him, a law practitioner, in exchange...