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Emeterio L. Asinas, Jr. Vs. Ernesto T. Trinidad

EMETERIO L. ASINAS, JR., complainant, vs. JUDGE ERNESTO T. TRINIDAD, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 63, Makati, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-94-902 | 1995-03-27

D E C I S I O N


BIDIN, J.:

In a sworn letter-complaint dated October 1, 1993, Emeterio L. Asinas, Jr. charged respondent Judge Ernesto T. Trinidad of the Metropolitan Trial Court of Makati, Branch 63 with (1) inefficiency and neglect in the performance of duties and (2) knowingly rendering an unjust and unfounded judgment in Criminal Cases Nos. 130338 and 130339 entitled "People of the Philippines vs. Rodolfo Paglinawan, et al.," for unjust vexation and malicious mischief.

Complainant is the complaining witness in the aforestated criminal cases. He alleges that although the cases were tried under the Rules on Summary Procedure, it took...