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Jonathan Vilena vs Judge Bienvenido Mapaye

JONATHAN VILENA, complainant, vs. JUDGE BIENVENIDO A. MAPAYE, Municipal Trial Court, Sariaya, Quezon, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-02-1424 | 2002-04-24


R E S O L U T I O N

DE LEON, JR., J.:

In a sworn complaint dated May 4, 2000 complainant Jonathan Vileña charged respondent Judge Bienvenido A. Mapaye, presiding judge of the Municipal Trial Court of Sariaya, Quezon with Knowingly Rendering an Unjust Judgment, Gross Ignorance of the Law and Gross Incompetence relative to Criminal Case No. 95-34 entitled "People vs. Jonathan Vileña, et al."

Complainant Vileña was one of the accused in Criminal Case No. 95-34 for Direct Assault upon an Agent of Person in Authority. On September 9, 1996, respondent Judge Mapaye rendered a decision finding the complainant, one of the accused therein, guilty as...