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Republic of the Philippines Vs. Judge Ramon S. Caguioa, etc.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, Complainant, versus JUDGE RAMON S. CAGUIOA, Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Olongapo City, Branch 74, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-07-2063 (Formerly OCA I.P.I. No. 07-2588-RTJ) | 2009-06-26

D E C I S I O N


Per Curiam:

Judges are not common men and women, whose errors men and women forgive and time forgets. Judges sit as the embodiment of the people's sense of justice, their last recourse where all other institutions have failed. - Dela Cruz v. Pascua, A.M. No. RTJ-99-1461, June 26, 2001, 359 SCRA 569.

Before us are three administrative cases against Judge Ramon S. Caguioa, Presiding Judge of Branch 74, Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Olongapo City.

I.

A.M. No. RTJ-07-2063

On November 29, 2006, the Republic of the Philippines, represented by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), charged Judge Ramon S. Caguioa with...