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In Re: Derogatory news Items Charging CA Associate Justice Demetrio Demetria with Interference on Behalf of a Suspected Drug Queen: / CA Associate Justice Demetrio G. Demetria

In Re: Derogatory news Items Charging Court of Appeals Associate Justice Demetrio Demetria with Interference on Behalf of a Suspected Drug Queen: / Court of Appeals Associate Justice Demetrio G. Demetria, respondent.

A.M. No. 00-7-09-CA | 2001-03-27

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

Men and Women of the courts must conduct themselves with honor, probity, fairness, prudence and discretion. Magistrates of justice must always be fair and impartial. They should avoid not only acts of impropriety, but all appearances of impropriety. Their influence in society must be consciously and conscientiously exercised with utmost prudence and discretion. For, theirs is the assigned role of preserving the independence, impartiality and integrity of the Judiciary.

The Code of Judicial Conduct mandates a judge to "refrain from influencing in any manner the outcome of litigation or dispute pending before...