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PEOPLE vs. Copro, et al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FLORENTINO COPRO, defendant-appellant, ATTORNEY LEOVIGILDO L. CERILLA, respondent.

G.R. No. L-37599 | 1974-07-31

R E S O L U T I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This Court, unhappily of late, has been compelled to take the appropriate disciplinary action against members of the bar in view of their lack of proper concern for and inattention to the duties incumbent on legal practitioners. This is still another instance. Our resolution of March 13, 1974 called upon respondent Leovigildo L. Cerilla, counsel for appellant, to explain within ten days from notice why he failed to file appellant's brief within the extended period which expired on February 23, 1974. He attempted to do so in a pleading filed on March 25, 1974, referring to an earlier manifestation of his....