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OCA vs. Judge Crispin C. Laron etc

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR (OCA), Complainant, versus JUDGE CRISPIN C. LARON, Regional Trial Court, Branch 44, Dagupan City, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-04-1870 [Formerly A.M. No. 04-7-388-RTC] | 2007-07-09

R E S O L U T I O N
 


Tinga, J.:

This administrative matter arose from several judicial audits and physical inventories of cases conducted by the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) in the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 44, Dagupan City, presided over by respondent Judge Crispin Laron.

The first judicial audit was conducted in 1996 by a team headed by then Senior Deputy Court Administrator Reynaldo L. Suarez. The 1996 Audit Report[1] showed that 369 cases, comprising 147 criminal and 222 civil, were audited. Of the records actually examined, 37 were deemed submitted for decision, 17 of which were beyond the 90-day reglementary...