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Office of the Solicitor General vs. Judge Antonio I. De Castro etc

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL, Complainant, versus JUDGE ANTONIO I. DE CASTRO, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Manila, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-06-2018 [Formerly Adm. Matter OCA-IPI No. 05-2360-RTJ] | 2007-10-15

R E S O L U T I O N
 

Tinga, J.:

In the Resolution dated 3 August 2007, this Court found respondent Judge Antonio I. de Castro guilty of gross ignorance of the law and imposed on him the penalty of suspension for a period of three (3) months and one (1) day without pay, with a warning that commission of a similar offense will be dealt with more severely. Respondent thus filed the instant Motion for Reconsideration and Judicial Clemency, dated 7 September 2007, seeking the modification of the resolution with respect to the penalty by imposing instead the alternative penalty of fine.

Respondent avers that there is no showing that he has...