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Lamberto Macias vs. Gibson Araula

LAMBERTO MACIAS, complainant, vs. JUDGE GIBSON ARAULA, CFI, Branch II, San Juan, Southern Leyte, respondent.

A.M. No. 1895-CFI | 1982-07-20

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Lamberto Macias, in his administrative complaint [1] with this Court, charged Judge Gibson Araula, Presiding Judge of Branch X of the Court of First Instance of Southern Leyte, for "serious infractions of the law, oppression, grave misconduct, illegal and unethical participation in partisan politics and electioneering," specifically committed as follows, to wit:

I. Serious infractions of the law, illegal and unethical participation in partisan politics and electioneering, in that -

A. At about 9:00 o'clock in the evening of March 20, 1978 in Barangay Casile, Municipality of Dauin, Negros Oriental, the...