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Boto vs Villena

MARY ROSE A. BOTO, Complainant, v. SENIOR ASSISTANT CITY PROSECUTOR VINCENT L. VILLENA, CITY PROSECUTOR ARCHIMEDES V. MANABAT AND ASSISTANT CITY PROSECUTOR PATRICK NOEL P. DE DIOS, Respondents.

A.C. No. 9684 | 2013-09-18

THIRD DIVISION
D E C I S I O N
 
MENDOZA, J.:
 
This administrative matter stemmed from an information for Libel against complainant Mary Rose A. Boto (Boto) filed before the Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch LXXIV, Taguig City (MeTC). The information was prepared by Assistant City Prosecutor Patrick Noel P. De Dios (De Dios), the investigating prosecutor; and approved by City Prosecutor Archimedes Manabat (Manabat). Senior Assistant City Prosecutor Vincent Villena (Villena) was the trial prosecutor assigned to Branch LXXIV.

In her Complaint-Affidavit,1 Boto charged respondents Villena, Manabat and De Dios with gross ignorance of the...