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Sps Buenaflor vs Ca, Sm United Rural Bank Of Panay Islands, Inc.

SPOUSE TEODORA and WILLFREDO BUENAFLOR, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALSM UNITED RURAL BANK OF PANAY ISLANDS, INC., represented by its Manager Raul Balandra, and THE HONORABLE NDANILO P. GALVEZ, Acting Presiding Judge of the Aklan Regional Trial Court, Branch 8, Kalibo, Aklan , respondents.

G.R. No. 142021 | 2000-11-29

DE LEON, JR., J.:

Before us is the administrative complaint filed by Fabiana J. Padua, charging Judge Eufenio R. Molina, Presiding Judge of Branch II of the Municipal Trial Court (MTC) of San Fernando, La Union, with gross ignorance of the law and grave abuse of discretion in connection with the preliminary investigation which he conducted in Criminal Case NO. 31693, entitled "People of the Philippines v. Julio F. Padua. " Complainant is the wife of Julio F. Padua who is accused in said criminal case, and mother of the victim, Bartholomew J. Padua.

In the afternoon of June9, 1997, the accused shot the victim during an altercation. The...