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Atty. Hermogenes Datuin, Jr. vs Judge Andres Soriano

ATTY. HERMOGENES DATUIN, JR., complainant, vs. JUDGE ANDRES B. SORIANO, Regional Trial Court of Malolos, Bulacan, respondent.

AM No. RTJ-01-1640 | 2002-10-15

D E C I S I O N

CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Recreant members of the judiciary must be denounced, but only when charges against them are substantiated. The administrative complaint at bar presents no such occasion.

The complaint arose from Civil Case No. 1335-8 (the civil case), a complaint for sum of money filed before the Regional Trial Court at Malolos, Bulacan on December 24, 1998 by a certain Olivia Natividad against one Teresita Lopez, which was raffled to Branch 13 thereof presided by Judge Andres B. Soriano, herein respondent. In said civil case, herein complainant Atty. Hermogenes Datuin, Jr. appeared as counsel for the defendant.

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