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ATTY. JEROME NORMAN L. TACORDA FOR: ODEL L. GEDRAGA, COMPLAINANT, VS. JUDGE REYNALDO B. CLEMENS, RESPONDENT.

ATTY. JEROME NORMAN L. TACORDA FOR: ODEL L. GEDRAGA, COMPLAINANT, VS. JUDGE REYNALDO B. CLEMENS, RESPONDENT.

A.M. No. RTJ-13-2359 (Formerly O.C.A. IPI No. 12-3851-RTJ) | 2013-10-23

FIRST DIVISION
 
R E S O L U T I O N

SERENO, C.J.:

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 of Calbayog 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 fifteen (15) years old, in Criminal Case No. 6433 entitled “People of the Philippines v....