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Report on the Judicial Audit Conducted in Br 34, RTC, Iriga City

REPORT ON THE JUDICIAL AUDIT CONDUCTED IN BRANCH 34, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, IRIGA CITY.

A.M. No. 96-12-429-RTC | 2000-02-02

R E SO L U T I O N


DE LEON, JR., J.:

In view of a judicial audit and physical inventory of cases in Branch 34 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Iriga City, the Court En Banc issued a resolution on January 21, 1997 directing Judge Jose S. Peñas, Jr. to explain within a non-extendible period of ten (10) days from notice why no administrative sanction should be imposed on him for: (a) not having been resolute in promulgating his decision in Criminal Case No. 2922; (b) failure to decide within the 90-day reglementary period nineteen (19) cases1 [Nine (9) criminal cases and ten (10) civil cases.] trial in each of which he completed...