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[A.M. No. 02-9-568-RTC.
RE: Report on Judicial Audit in RTC, Br. 3, 5, 7, 60 and 61, Baguio City
SECOND DIVISION
Gentlemen:
Quoted hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of this
Court dated
A.M. No. 02-9-568-RTC (Re: Report on the Judicial Audit Conducted in the Regional Trial Court, Br. 3, 5, 7, 60 and 61, Baguio City.)
Before the Court is a motion for reconsideration of Judge Edilberto T. Claravall of the
Resolution dated
In said Resolution, Judge Claravall was
found guilty of undue delay in deciding a criminal case beyond the 90-day
reglementary period and, thus, he was fined Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00) and admonished to strictly devise an efficient
system of court management and personnel supervision, with warning that a
similar infraction in the future shall be dealt with more severely. Judge Claravall filed the present motion for reconsideration,
praying that the Court consider mere admonition to be a sufficient
administrative sanction for the procedural lapse involving only one criminal
case; that the Court take into consideration the fact that there was indeed a
request made for extension of time to decide said case but the same was not
mailed nor presented to the audit team; that the Court should also take into
consideration the fact that said request was apparently not mailed nor shown to
the audit team because at the time the audit was being conducted, the criminal
case docket clerk was on leave; the regular Branch Clerk of Court was no longer
around as she was appointed MCTC Judge and the newly designated Branch Clerk of
Court, having just assumed her duties, was not aware of said request for
extension of time. Had the audit team brought the matter up to respondent Judge
Claravall, he himself would have looked for said
request for extension of time. Judge Claravall
asserts that he would continue to conscientiously and diligently perform the
task to dispense justice as expeditiously as he has sworn to do.
The Court finds the foregoing circumstances raised by Judge Claravall as reasonable grounds to reduce the fine imposed on him, but not to do away with such fine.
In view thereof, the
Resolution of P3,000.00).
SO ORDERED.
Very truly yours,
(Sgd.)
LUDICHI
YASAY-NUNAG
Clerk of Court
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