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Domingo vs. Atty. Revilla

GENE M. DOMINGO, COMPLAINANT, V. ATTY. ANASTACIO E. REVILLA, JR., RESPONDENT.

A.C. No. 5473 | 2018-01-23

D E C I S I O N
 
PER CURIAM:
 
A disbarred lawyer who is found to have committed an offense that constitutes another ground prior to his eventual disbarment may be heavily fined therefor. The Court does not lose its exclusive jurisdiction over his other disbarrable act or actuation committed while he was still a member of the Law Profession.
 
The Case
 
Before this Court is the complaint for disbarment instituted by Gene Domingo (complainant) against Atty. Anastacio E. Revilla, Jr. (respondent),[1] alleging that the latter deliberately and feloniously induced and persuaded the former into releasing almost half a million...