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Aquilino Pimentel Jr vs Attys Antonio Llorente & Ligaya Salayon

AQUILINO Q. PIMENTEL, JR., complainant, vs. ATTYS. ANTONIO M. LLORENTE and LIGAYA P. SALAYON, respondents.

A.C. No. 4680 | 2000-08-29

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a complaint for disbarment against respondents Antonio M. Llorente and Ligaya P. Salayon for gross misconduct, serious breach of trust, and violation of the lawyer's oath in connection with the discharge of their duties as members of the Pasig City Board of Canvassers in the May 8, 1995 elections. Salayon, then election officer of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), was designated chairman of said Board, while Llorente, who was then City Prosecutor of Pasig City, served as its ex oficio vice-chairman as provided by law.1 [Batas Pambansa Blg. 881, §221(b). The third member of the Board,...