S.C. OBC/OCAD DISBARMENT CASE VS. CA "DIRTY DOZEN" JUSTICES

EDITORIAL - Justice for sale

Monday, July 30, 2007


SC to probe TRO fixers, justices in appeals court

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/july/30/yehey/metro/20070730met1.html


By Jomar Canlas, Reporter

THE Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the alleged indiscriminate issuances of temporary restraining orders by 12 Court of Appeals justices, dubbed the “dirty dozen.”

In a one-page resolution of the SC en banc, the Court ordered the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) to appoint a judicial supervisor that would audit the cases heard by CA Justice Romeo Barza, who is suspected of being among the “dirty dozen.”

The Court issued the ruling based on a 23-page verified disbarment complaint/letter affidavit of former Malabon RTC judge Florentino Floro Jr. before the SC for charges of gross misconduct, gross ignorance of the law, manifest undue interest, questionable temporary restraining orders, grave violations of Republic Act 6713, or Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards, against the members of the “dirty dozen” and CA Justice Romeo Barza.

Barza was a former PJA president and a former senior partner of the Carpio Villaraza Cruz Angangaco law.

The SC also ordered the “designated judicial supervisor to submit a report to the Office of the Court Administrator within 30 days from date of investigation.”

Floro also asked the Court to conduct a judicial audit and preventive suspension against the “dirty dozen.”

The “dirty dozen” of the appellate court is composed of 10 male justices and two lady justices, who are on the list of alleged corrupt magistrates in the CA, according to Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.

The CA is composed of 69 justices, 51 of which are stationed in Manila. Majority of these justices came from the lower court.

Flora based his case against Barza on the justice’s “frequent” issuances of TROs as reported by lawyer Mercedita G. Dadole-Ignacio, CA Cebu Division Clerk of Court to CA Clerk of Court lawyer Elisa Pilar-Longalong, according to the complaint.

Barza issued five TROs from January 18 to February 26, 2007, or a series of five TROs for five consecutive weeks, the complaint said.

Based on records submitted by the 23 Divisions Clerks of Court of the appellate court, the most number of TROs issued was by Barza, during his stay at Cebu CA. Barza is now with the CA in Manila.

The TROs were issued in connection with the cases of Sun Life of Canada v. National Labor Relations Commission, Armed Forces of the Phils. v. Yolanda Lauron, Doloreich A. Dumaluan v. Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, Assumption Iloilo v. Fedy T. Bhuiyan and O.G. Holdings Corp. v. Environmental Management Bureau.

Floro also prayed that upon due notice and hearing, “judgment be rendered dismissing respondents from service, with prejudice and recommending the filing of criminal charges against them for violations of R.A. 6713 and R.A. 3019 [antigraft and corrupt practices act], and under R.A. 1379, or Forfeiture of Illegally Gotten Wealth.”

He cited pertinent laws that were violated such as the violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct, Code of Professional Responsibility and the Revised Administrative Code of 1987.

Recently, the Supreme Court set an example by sacking CA Associate Justice Elvi John Asuncion due to delays in resolving the motions for reconsideration within the required period and the irregular issuance of a TRO.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2007/07/27/fire.hits.appellate.court.building.html


Friday, July 27, 2007
Fire hits appellate court building

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Fire hits Court of Appeals
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http://www.philstar.com/philstar/news200703222601.htm

The Philippine Star 03/22/2007 The allegations of corruption in the judiciary are not new. What’s new is that four election lawyers representing different political groups have banded together and come out in the open to denounce what they said was corruption among certain trial court judges handling electoral protests. The four claimed the going rate for a favorable decision on a poll protest ranged from P1 million to P5 million. Apart from monetary considerations, political pressure can also influence court decisions, the lawyers said. They did not name names or point to a specific case of justice for sale, but it was evident that they were speaking from personal brushes with corruption.

Yesterday Chief Justice Reynato Puno met with the lawyers and ordered the implementation of measures to plug opportunities for corruption in the resolution of poll protests. The move is welcome but so much more needs to be done. Judicial corruption taints more than just election cases. Joseph Estrada famously denounced "hoodlums in robes" back when he was the vice president and chief crime buster. Now the deposed president is himself on trial for massive corruption and the hoodlums in robes are still around. They sell TROs or temporary restraining orders to the highest bidder. If the price is right, they release accused drug traffickers and other defendants in non-bailable offenses. And as the lawyers have pointed out, political considerations also taint the judiciary.

With an eye to a promotion or better assignment, judges give in to pressure from the executive branch and politicians. The rule of law is a bedrock of democracy. And that bedrock depends on a clean and efficient judiciary. That kind of judiciary has not been seen in this country for decades. Two people power revolts failed to make a difference; the TRO gained notoriety as an instrument of judicial corruption during the past two decades. Now lawyers have gone public with allegations of corruption in the judiciary that in turn tarnishes the electoral system. Even if those allegations do not lead to a purge, they should produce long overdue reforms to excise the rot in the judicial service.




Monday, April, 23 2007

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/apr/23/yehey/top_stories/20070423top1.html


Ex-judge charges CA ‘Dirty Dozen’

By Jomar Canlas, Reporter

A former judge has filed administrative charges against 12 justices of the Court of Appeals who are on the Ombudsman’s list of magistrates under watch for corruption.

In his complaint to the Supreme Court, former Malabon Regional Trial Court Judge Florentino Floro Jr. identified only one justice and asked the Court to compel Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez to submit the rest of the names on her list.

Floro named only Justice Romeo Barza, a former president of the Philippine Judges Association and senior partner of the Carpio Villaraza Cruz Angangaco law office.

In his 23-page Verified Disbarment Complaint Floro charged the 12 with gross misconduct, gross ignorance of the law, manifest undue interest, issuing questionable temporary restraining orders and violations of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards.

Floro asked the Supreme Court to conduct a judicial audit on the 12 and place them under preventive suspension.

He said he singled out Barza because he believes Barza is the justice Gutierrez referred to as “a former judge known for his indiscriminate and improvident issuance of TROs.”

Floro also asked the Court to subpoena this Manila Times reporter to reveal the names on Ombudsman watchlist.

The Times had run an article on the “Dirty Dozen” in CA based on the Ombudsman’s list.

Floro said he filed the complaint in his capacity as a taxpayer.

The Supreme Court had dismissed Floro after he admitted that he consulted with supposed supernatural beings like elves in deciding cases.

He said he also based his complaint against Barza from a report by Mercedita G. Dadole-Ignacio, the Cebu CA division clerk of court, to CA Clerk of Court Elisa Pilar-Longalong.

Barza reportedly issued five TROs from January 18 to February 26, 2007, or one TRO a week.

Based on the records submitted by the 23 CA division clerks of court, Barza issued the string of TROs while assigned in the Cebu CA. Barza is now stationed in Manila.

The restraining orders involve the cases of Sun Life of Canada v. National Labor Relations Commission, the Armed Forces v. Yolanda Lauron, Doloreich A. Dumaluan v. Ombudsman Gutierrez, Assumption Iloilo v. Fedy T. Bhuiyan and O.G. Holdings Corp. v. Environmental Management Bureau.

The Times tried to reach Barza through his staff, Grace Salamat, but Salamat refused to provide the justice’s cell-phone number.

The Ombudsman is monitoring 10 male and two female justices, all assigned in Manila.

Chief Justice Reynato Puno has a similar list which includes Cebu CA magistrates.

The CA has 69 justices, 51 of which are assigned in Manila. Many of them rose from the lower courts.

One justice on the list is a former judge known for the “indiscriminate” and “improvident” issuances of TROs and is connected to a big law office. Another member is being watched for his “lavish” spending and rich lifestyle.

One magistrate is a former RTC judge in Quezon City. The two female justices reportedly has “strong connections” in the judiciary and is linked to a big law office and a gambling lord in Central Luzon. They were also seen frequenting big casinos wearing disguises.

The other justice fixes cases, with his wife acting as his agent. Another justice handles mainly labor cases.

An aging justice reportedly earned a fortune from a series of cases and loves to play golf.

The Supreme Court has begun to crack down on “hoodlums in robes” in the Court of Appeals.

It has sacked CA Associate Justice Elvi John Asuncion for delays in resolving motions for reconsideration within the required period and the irregular issuance of TROs.

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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/apr/24/yehey/top_stories/20070424top5.html

Tuesday, April 24, 2007


CA presiding justice dares
complainers to name names

By Jomar Canlas, Reporter

COURT of Appeals Presiding Justice Ruben Reyes has a challenge: name the Dirty Dozen in the appellate court and spare the innocent.

In an interview with The Manila Times, Reyes said that in order to push for the cleansing of the judiciary—and to be just to innocent magistrates—the names of the so-called Dirty Dozen or the “12 Most Corrupt Justices” must be disclosed.

“I am challenging and encouraging the litigants and the lawyers to come out in the open and to name names. This is the only way to clear the name of the innocent justices who are clean and proper in their ways,” Reyes said.

Reyes said that some of the CA justices were hurt by the reports that there were a dozen justices in the appellate court who are engaged in corruption.

The Chief CA Magistrate said that he is now pushing for reforms in the appellate court to dissuade issues that CA is becoming a corrupt office.

Part of this reform is the putting up of a “One Stop Shop” or a place where the litigants and lawyers will file their pleadings and other documents in a building near the CA gate which will put a stop to the practice of roaming around in the CA premises.

Justice Reyes has opened the “One Stop Shops.”

“The One Stop Shop will put a stop to the practice of roaming around in the CA premises. All of their transactions will be done here,” he said.

The Manila Times learned that the complaint against the Dirty Dozen filed by former Judge Florentino Floro of Malabon Regional Trial Court was sent to the Supreme Court’s Office of the Court Administrator and the Office of the Ombudsman.

Floro lodged charges of Gross Misconduct, Gross Ignorance of the Law, Manifest Undue Interest, Questionable Temporary Restraining Orders, Grave Violations of Republic Act 6713 or Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards against the members of the Dirty Dozen.

Floro is also asking the Court to conduct a Judicial Audit and Preventive Suspension the members of the Dirty Dozen. The complaint is asking the Court to order Ombudsman Gutierrez and The Times to be issued subpoenas and to submit the “Ombudsman Watchlist” which contain the names of the Dirty Dozen.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Arinday: The ex-judge with 3 dwarf-friends and the CA 'dirty dozen'
By G.H. Arinday, Jr.
Sunfare


http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bac/2007/04/25/oped/g.h..arinday.jr..sunfare.html


DO YOU remember a member of the judiciary the longest ever suspension of seven years before he was finally eased out of his office? What crime did he commit for his unceremonial dismissal from the bench? Well, he was considered "psychotic" or unfit for the job by cavorting with his dwarf-friends Luis, Armand, and Angel. His claim of being a psychic was damned by the Supreme Court.

This time, former Regional Trial Court Judge Florentino Floro, Jr. hit the headline by filing administrative charges against the so-called "Dirty Dozen" of the Court of Appeals.



The serious indictment against the 12 magistrates does not dwell on the mysticism or paranormal allegations through the messages of his elemental companions but on grounds of gross violations of judicial ethics embodied in the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards. The violative conduct of the "Dirty Dozen" which definitely brings disrepute to the collegiate court has been exposed earlier by no less than Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and the "moral" facts were made known to the Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno.

By coincidence, the list in the hands of the Office of the Ombudsman tally with that of the High Tribunal, detailing the shenanigans of the 12 magistrates. The former judge named only one associate justice who was then connected, as had been bared by a national broadsheet, as a member of "The Firm", in allusion to John Grisham's legal thriller of the same title. If indeed, the breaches committed by the 12 associate justices are recorded by the Ombudsman, would it not be logical to conduct a full-blown investigation in order that the whole justice system is not put on a very dark cloud? Just recently one of them from the same court was dismissed for gross ignorance of the law.

Now, we cannot say that the former judge is just vengeful for what was done to him. Or we can state that the administrative charges which demand for full accounting of the questionable acts of the "Dirty Dozen" is a product of psychotic tantrum! This well-known moral fact was headlined about a month or so ago by the same newspaper-The Manila Times. Among the serious "findings" or judicial aberrations allegedly committed by the "Dirty Dozen" is the sale of injunctive remedies like the issuance of Temporary Restraining Order, supported by the cases covered by such provisional remedies which allegedly cost the litigant at least One Million pesos!

It could be said that what the former judge is asking the Supreme Court is reasonable enough: An audit performance of the suspects and preventive suspensions until the thorough investigation shall have been finished.

It is further claimed that the associate justices who earned the unsavory complaints were former regional trial court judges. If the indictment is proven positive, then probably they were doing the same obnoxious acts before their promotion to the Court of Appeals. To borrow the language of Milan Kundera, a Franco-Czech novelist, such acts can be qualified as part of the "mathematical nostalgia". It needs no further explanation.

Of the "Dirty Dozen" are two lady justices, and one suspect, of being amoral in his judicial duties, is from the Court of Appeals in Cebu City. How this perception of corruption metastasizing in the judicial system shall surely tear into shreds the trust and confidence of the people in a government branch, supposedly the last bulwark of democracy, is a greater challenge than some of our political and social ails.

Is there no possibility of creating a high-profile investigative body by the High Tribunal, composed of men and women of proven honesty, probity, and
integrity, to conduct an in-depth inquiry equivalent to the no-nonsense approach of the Watergate scandal which forced the American president to resign?

This problem posed by the so-called "Dirty Dozen" appears to be a hard nut to crack with litigants cooperating with the suspects in the Court of Appeals would never lend their helping hands. Symbolically, if we look at Lady Justice, she is badly bruised and could no longer distinguish the "color of law" with
her sword and scale subtly stolen from her. This is calamitous if indeed an iota of truth is obtaining in this unprecedented expose on judicial corruption.

[Note: Before deciding to write this piece, I had in mind to delve into compañero Florentino Floro's "dalawang mata" (or two-eyed) coconuts from whence he produced the medicinal oil, a bottle of which was sent by him to me. I found it through curiosity that it is rare to find this type of coconuts. Usually it has three].




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On March 29, 2007, Judge Florentino V. Floro, Jr. filed a landmark DISBARMENT complaint against CA Justice ROMEO F. BARZA and "The Dirty Dozen" with the Supreme Court Office of the Court Adminstrator, Office of the Bar Confidant and Office of the Chief Justice.


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National Governance, Sun Star Forums

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C.J. Puno: CA SELLS MANILA/CEBU TROs; IMPRECATION Psalm 109


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PANGANIBAN: Cleansing, reforming the JUDICIARY - HYPOCRISY



Judge Floro reproduces hereunder the 23 pages Complaint:



ORIGINAL
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
OFFICE OF THE BAR CONFIDANT
SUPREME COURT - M A N I L A - En Banc

Judge Florentino V. Floro, Jr.,
(Presiding Judge, RTC, Br. 73, Malabon, M. M.)
Complainant,

Hon. Tanodbayan Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez,
Jose Vicente B. Salazar, IBP National President,
Thelma Chiong, Vice-President,
CRUSADE AGAINST VIOLENCE,
& Office of the Court Administrator,
Impleaded Necessary / Proper Parties,



- versus - A. C. NO. _______

For: DISBARMENT, Gross Misconduct, Gross Ignorance of the Law, manifest undue interest, “selling” temporary restraining orders, Grave Violations of: R.A. 6713, Art. III, etc.


CA Associate Justice Romeo F. Barza,
“The Dirty Dozen” – 11 CA (Manila) Justices:
9 Males & 2 Females, and 1 CA (Cebu) Justice
(In the words of Justice Gutierrez):

CA Justices Romeo F. Barza & John Doe 2, “One justice is a former judge known for his “indiscriminate” and “improvident” issuance of TROs; Another is a former regional trial court judge known for his lavish lifestyle”; CA Justice John Doe 3, “Another ex-RTC judge tries to project a reputation for being honest by restricting access to his chambers; CA Justices Jane Does 4 & 5; One female justice reportedly has strong connections with a big law office and the other, to a gambling lord in Central Luzon. The two are said to frequent big casinos wearing disguises; CA Justices John Does 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Two justices have their wives acting as their agents when they fix cases; Another specializes in labor cases and plays golf. CA (Cebu) Justice John Doe 12, the most notorious justice reportedly collects huge fees for his retirement,
Respondents.
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Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno,
Senior Associate Justice Leonardo A. Quisumbing,
and the MEMBERS, En Banc, SUPREME COURT,
Padre Faura, Manila


VERIFIED DISBARMENT COMPLAINT / LETTER-AFFIDAVIT
[Under Rules 138 & 139-B, Revised Rules of Court, inter alia]

With, Motions for JUDICIAL AUDIT / PREVENTIVE SUSPENSION

& Petition to Order Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez & Jomar Canlas, to Submit the “Ombudsman Watch List” / Names of the 12 Respondents to the Court so that this Complaint may be Formally Amended and Respondents duly summoned
With Urgent Prayer For Immediate Docketing and Early Resolution

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)
Malolos City, BULACAN ) S.S.

Your Honors,

I, Judge FLORENTINO V. FLORO, JR. under oath, depose and say:

“Please direct an immediate judicial audit on these respondents Court of Appeals Justices. Do order their immediate preventive suspension.
“These CA Justices are unmitigated disgraces to the judiciary. How they ever reached their lofty positions is truly disconcerting. They are thoroughly CORRUPT persons who have no shame using their offices to extort money from litigants. They are equally, if not more, deprave than Demetrio Demetria & Elvi John Asuncion who were dismissed by this Supreme Court. They deserves not only dismissal but DISBARMENT as well. Because the law profession should also be purged of IMMORAL jurists like them. I hope you can terminate their services in the judiciary ASAP to save the institution. Thank you.”

(Borrowing the words of the anonymous complainant in A.M. No. 06-44-CA-J, “Padilla vs. Asuncion”, 3-20, 07)

1. The SWS published these 2 reports, the first having been commissioned by this Court:
Mahar Mangahas, SWS survey - Lawyers say judiciary more corrupt

http://news.inquirer.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=25484

posted 08:31am - Jan 26, 2005, By Donna Pazzibugan, Inquirer News Service

“MORE lawyers nowadays complain of corruption in the judicial system compared to 10 years ago, according to the Social Weather Stations. One out of two lawyers knows of a trial judge in their city or province who has taken a bribe but they did not report it because they could not prove it, said the SWS. In a briefing among lawyers Tuesday night, SWS president Mahar Mangahas said the perception of corruption in the various courts -- from the municipal trial courts all the way up to the Supreme Court -- has risen among lawyers in the last 10 years. "Our lawyers are more critical now than before," Mangahas told the lawyers as he presented the survey findings for the first time. The SWS polled 889 trial judges -- or 61 percent of all trial judges in the country -- and 400 lawyers from November 2003 to July 2004 to get their perceptions on various aspects of the judicial system. The last such survey was undertaken by SWS from 1994 to 1996. "As in 1995, one-fourth of present lawyers say that many or very many judges are corrupt. Although half or 49 percent say they know a case in their own city or province where a judge took a bribe, only 8 percent said they reported the bribery. The main excuse of those who kept silent is that they could not prove it," the SWS said. Among judges, only 7 percent said that many or very many judges were corrupt. The SWS said the judges' perception of the extent of corruption among court personnel was the same as in 1996. "What has increased is the proportion of judges seeing many lawyers as corrupt," it said. Mangahas said the survey showed that corruption "remains a serious problem in the judicial system but it is not cultural." "They're saying there's nothing to be done about (corruption) but it's not accepted. There's still the idealism," he said.”

2. From the first day that our Court was created in 1901, Filipinos never witnessed the supreme corruption in the judiciary than:

CRITICAL AND UNDISPUTED FACTS
Monday, March 26, 2007

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/mar/26/yehey/top_stories/20070326top1.html


‘Dirty Dozen’ in CA
We know who corrupt justices are, says Ombudsman

By Jomar Canlas, Reporter

Twelve justices of the Court of Appeals suspected of “selling” temporary restraining orders are now on the watchlist of the Office of the Ombudsman and the Supreme Court. Ombudsman Maria Merce­ditas Navarro-Gutierrez has confirmed that the justices have been the subject of numerous complaints from the litigants and lawyers. The Manila Times has learned that despite the sacking of CA Associate Justice Elvi John Asuncion, Chief Justice Reynato Puno continues to monitor the court’s magistrates. The Times was told the justices on the Ombudsman’s list are the same magistrates the Supreme Court suspects of fixing cases.

Gutierrez refused to reveal the names because she said the list was given to her confidentially. But she said that the suspect justices who are based in Manila conduct their nefarious transactions in three of the biggest hotels near the appellate court.
1), 2),
Two of the justices, assigned in Manila, are reportedly female.

The CA has 69 justices, 51 of them in Manila.
3), 4),
One justice is a former judge known for his “indiscriminate” and “improvident” issuance of TROs. Another is a former regional trial curt judge known for his lavish lifestyle.
5),
Another ex-RTC judge tries to project a reputation for being honest by restricting access to his chambers.
6), 7),
One female justice reportedly has strong connections with a big law office and the other, to a gambling lord in Central Luzon. The two are said to frequent big casinos wearing disguises.
8), 9),
Two justices have their wives acting as their agents when they fix cases.
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Another specializes in labor cases and plays golf.
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In Cebu, the most notorious justice reportedly collects huge fees because he wants to live his retirement in luxury.

The justice was said to be able to submit a concurring opinion in a case ahead of the ruling of the ponente or designated writer of the decision.
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Other justices in Cebu reportedly offer a “package” of a TRO, injunction, decision and resolution on motions for reconsideration.”

Choose better CA justice nominees

By Jomar Canlas Reporter

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/mar/27/yehey/top_stories/20070327top1.html

“OMBUDSMAN Merceditas Navarro-Gutierrez on Monday appealed to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) and President Arroyo to recommend and appoint better persons—in integrity, competence and character—to prevent the appointment in the Court of Appeals (CA) of people like the “Dirty Dozen” appellate justices who are known for selling TROs (temporary restraining orders) and for other corrupt practices. Gutierrez has told The Times that she has a list of the corrupt magistrates from the appellate court similar to the names which were given as information to the justices of the Supreme Court. According to an unimpeachable Times source, some Supreme Court justices are also receiving complaints about the very CA justices who are on the Ombudsman’s watch list.

The source told The Times that no formal complaint has been lodged against some of the “Dirty Dozen” and if the Court has investigated the complaints the probe is being done very discreetly with all probers sworn to strict confidentiality by the Chief Justice. On the other hand, Atty. Jose Midas Marquez, SC Public Information Office chief, in an interview over dzMM said that the Court does not a “formal list at present.” But, he said, “complaints against erring magistrates” have been received by the Court. “I cannot say categorically that there is a list or investigation. But we have been receiving some complaints. The Ombudsman can give the names to us for a formal investigation, “Marquez said. What The Times is holding is the “vital information” that some of the SC justices are receiving “bad remarks” against some CA justices who are included in the “Dirty Dozen” watchlist of the Ombudsman.

The Dirty Dozen

Nine male justices and two female justices, assigned in Manila, are allegedly on the list of the allegedly corrupt magistrates in the appellate court. The CA is composed of 69 justices, 51 of which are stationed in Manila. Majority of these justices came from the lower court before getting their promotion to the CA. “What pains us is that these CA justices came from the regional trial courts, which means that in the lower court they were already doing their corrupt practices and brought their corruption to the Court of Appeals. Kung sino pa ‘yung galing sa ibaba ‘yon pa ang corrupt,” a CA justice lamented. One of them is said to be “still young yet so corrupt” and he loves to play golf. The other one is already old and recently handled juicy cases. He was one of the justices who, according to Times source, should have refunded the payment already made to him by a litigant because he failed to produce the paying litigant’s desired resolution in due time. Both these old and young justices rose from the ranks or began their career in the lower courts.

More heads to roll - Chief Justice Reynato Puno has just set an example by sacking from the service CA Associate Justice Elvi John Asuncion for delaying the resolution of motions for reconsideration within the required period and for making irregular issuances of TROs. Puno has just told the 17 Division Chairmen-Justices of the appellate court to reform their divisions and put an end to rampant corruption in the CA, including the “TROs for sale” racket.”

3. The Philippines Star publishes this judicial shocker:

EDITORIAL - Justice for sale

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/news200703222601.htm


The Philippine Star 03/22/2007

“The allegations of corruption in the judiciary are not new. What’s new is that four election lawyers representing different political groups have banded together and come out in the open to denounce what they said was corruption among certain trial court judges handling electoral protests. The four claimed the going rate for a favorable decision on a poll protest ranged from P1 million to P5 million. Apart from monetary considerations, political pressure can also influence court decisions, the lawyers said. They did not name names or point to a specific case of justice for sale, but it was evident that they were speaking from personal brushes with corruption. The rule of law is bedrock of democracy. And that bedrock depends on a clean and efficient judiciary. That kind of judiciary has not been seen in this country for decades. Two people power revolts failed to make a difference; the TRO gained notoriety as an instrument of judicial corruption during the past two decades. Now lawyers have gone public with allegations of corruption in the judiciary that in turn tarnishes the electoral system. Even if those allegations do not lead to a purge, they should produce long overdue reforms to excise the rot in the judicial service.”

4. Ever since, no lawyer ever openly spoke and wrote to the Court about this serious matter of corruption in the judiciary. It is understandable, since VENGEANCE, ANGER and JUDICIAL hatred will be the prize for such endeavor. But how will the poor lawyer win in Courts if he antagonizes these corrupt judges and justices with several partners in the crime. Ultimately the attorney will have to loose clients. Now, I Judge Floro, fights and hope against hope that this Court will finally take the iron hand against these DIRTY DOZEN specified in the LIST of Justice Gutierrez.

5. The Manila Times first reported:

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/mar/05/yehey/top_stories/20070305top4.html


Monday, March 5, 2007

Puno confronts CA on TROs ‘for sale’

By Jomar Canlas, Reporter - THE MANILA TIMES

“CHIEF Justice Reynato Puno is now facing his first major headache in the judiciary: Corruption and temporary restraining orders (TROs) “for sale” in the Court of Appeals. Puno summoned on Thursday afternoon the 17 chairmen (senior members) of the appellate court stationed in Manila and expressed his alarm on reports of corruption. According to the court members who talked to The Manila Times on condition of anonymity, the Chief Justice met justices in two. Presiding Justice Ruben Reyes and Justice Conrado Vasquez Jr., the second most senior in the appellate court, led the first batch. The third most senior member, Justice Portia Alino-Hormachuelos, led another batch. Only Justice Rodrigo Cosico was absent in the meeting with Puno. According to one source, Puno told the CA justices: “I’ll go straight to the point. I have called you because of corruption.” An associate justice said Puno was very stern during the meetings. A third justice described the Puno sermon as direct, candid and straightforward.

TROs

In the interview of The Times, Presiding Justice Reyes confirmed a dialogue with the Chief Justice on the issue of corruption, but he would not reveal details. Reyes said he would meet CA employees on Monday, during the flag ceremony, to address the problem. He will also have a breakfast meeting with the CA justices to discuss the reported sale of TROs. “I will ask the justices to meet their staff and to begin somewhere to fight corruption here,” Reyes told The Times. “Let the ax fall whoever gets hurt, in heaven’s name.” On the issue of TROs, one source said, the Chief Justice reiterated the traditional principle that “not to issue a TRO is the general rule and to issue is the exception.” Right now, the source admitted, the trend in the appellate court is “to issue a TRO is the general rule and not to issue is the exception.”
Suggestions - During the dialogues, several justices raised suggestions to stem corruption. Justice Vasquez asked Puno to name names and confront the justices who are subjects of corruption complaints to spare the innocent. Presiding Justice Reyes wanted to put up a press office inside the CA, to show transparency. He also said the media could act as the “watchdog” in the appellate court.

Cebu problems –

The Chief Justice raised the issue of corruption in Cebu station of the CA, where reports have cited some justices as having accepted bribes for favorable rulings. Puno reported asked Justice Hormachuelos, a Cebuana and a former judge in Cebu, if she was aware of the corruption in Cebu. The lady justice asked Puno to name the alleged corrupt CA members for verification purposes. It was reported that a young lawyer, who is a relative of a retired justice, is acting as fixer in the cases in Cebu.
Puno advised the CA magistrates to set good examples. “It should start from you. You must set an example against corruption. Employees are also involved. During my time there’s already a syndicate but it should not stop you from stopping it,” Puno told the CA justices.

6. The following facts are well-established from these reports:

Chief Justice plans to abolish Court of Appeals-Cebu

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=53952

By Ramon Tulfo
Inquirer - Last updated 01:03am (Mla time) 03/10/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- My mole at the Supreme says that Chief Justice Reynato Puno is planning to abolish the Court of Appeals branch in Cebu, and transfer it to Manila because of rampant corruption. Most justices at the CA-Cebu, which has three divisions, can be bought, reports reaching the Chief Justice said. Puno also wants all the cases decided by the CA-Cebu reviewed by the highest court because most of them could have been "tainted." If the CA is tainted, who can we trust with criminal and civil cases on appeal? But apparently because of the distance from Manila and lack of supervision, the CA-Cebu is playing hooky, said my Supreme Court mole. But why does the Chief Justice focus his sights solely on CA-Cebu, when there are also many corrupt CA justices in Manila?
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=53592


ON TARGET - Nepotism at the Court of Appeals

By Ramon Tulfo - Inquirer - Last updated 05:10am (Mla time) 03/08/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- It must have taken Chief Justice Reynato Puno a lot of courage to expose the nepotism in the judiciary by issuing an order banning spouses and offspring of justices at the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Sandiganbayan and Court of Tax Appeals from the payroll of these higher courts. Beginning March 31, the employment of spouses and children of justices in the high tribunal, appellate court, Sandiganbayan and Court of Tax Appeals is deemed terminated. My sources in the high tribunal say there is not a single Supreme Court justice who has a spouse or offspring employed in his or her office. But the Court of Appeals has many. Among the prominent ones at the appellate court are Presiding Justice Ruben T. Reyes and Justice Rodrigo V. Cosico, whose wives are employed as their personal secretaries. The appellate court justices who have their children working in their offices are Hakim S. Abdulwahid, Renato Dacudao, Sesinando E. Villon, Elvie John Asuncion, Enrico E. Lanzanas, Rosalinda Asuncion-Vicente, Normandie B. Pizarro, Bienvenido I. Reyes and Juan Q. Enriquez. Dear readers, these are the honorable justices who pass judgment on ordinary mortals who happen to have cases pending in their court.

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The wife of a justice, according to my sources at the appellate court, treats all minor employees as if they were her servants. The justice, allegedly upon the suggestion of his wife, ordered that the wives of justices wear a different uniform from ordinary employees to distinguish them from the female rank and file. For some reason, the order was not enforced.

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7. The IBP’s help was summoned:

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/mar/12/yehey/metro/20070312met5.html


Monday, March 12, 2007

Chief Justice seeks IBP help in stopping TROs ‘for sale’

CHIEF Justice Reynato Puno asked the lawyers in the country, through the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), to stop corrupting justices and judges and from buying temporary restraining orders (TROs) that are “for sale.” Puno made the statement with Atty. Jose Salazar, IBP national president, during their meeting with the Judicial Reform Program. Salazar said that Puno asked the lawyers’ hierarchy to cease from giving “bribes” to the members of the judiciary. The Chief Justice is worried about the growing practice of “buy and sell” of cases in the judiciary which forced him to summon the Court of Appeals justices and the officials of the lawyers’ league. Salazar said that Puno is pointing out that corruption is a two-way traffic, for there would be no acceptor if there were no bribe-giver. This would be translated into the crime of direct or indirect bribery of the magistrate and corruption of public officials on the part of the lawyer. “It takes two to tango in committing corruption. It is true that there are no corrupt judges if there are no corrupt lawyers,” Salazar said. Puno is more concerned right now with the appellate coourt, being his former court before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, than any other courts due to the complaints he is receiving that corruption is now rampant in the appellate court.

Lawyer’s style - Several lawyers in the country are engaged in corrupting judges or justices in order to win a case. A former justice secretary who talked to The Manila Times on condition of anonymity, said that the usual procedure in order to win a case pending before the courts, even in the prosecutor’s level is to broker first. The words “budget” and “mobilization fees” were normally used in law practice. “A lawyer would normally go to your office, especially if you have known each other already and will say ‘may budget yan.’ Kahit ayaw mo hindi mo naman maipahiya dahil kakilala mo,” the former secretary said. They would at times go to the chambers of magistrates or asked for a middleman.
Remedies of the bar- Salazar told The Times the accusations of corruption is a “perception,” whether it is true or not it needs to be proven by evidence. The remedy seen to cure this issue is to report the corrupt lawyers and file the necessary disbarment case.
Salazar argued that small-time law offices that wanted to establish a name could be behind the use of so-called “Matrix,” but not the big law offices. He cited that his former law office, the ACCRA law office (Angara Concepcion Regala Abello law office) is now tolerating the fixing practice since it is already established. “The Sycip Salazar law office will immediately stop from entertaining you, if the client himself would suggest to bribe a judge or a justice,” he said.
Jomar Canlas

8. BEST SELLERS OF TROs: 68 since January

As legal basis for including and identifying CA Justice Romeo F. Barza as specific respondent in this case, complainant submits this CRITICAL NEWS REPORT which singles him regarding RECORD TRO issuance; while in itself it appears not irregular, still, in view of the surrounding circumstances of the audit, specifically, his RECORD in the 1st Quarter, ERGO, complainant accuses him on the legal grounds of –

a) RES IPSA LOQUITUR and b) Gross Ignorance of the Law on TRO: Improvident, dubious and questionable GRANTS thereof contrary to the established jurisprudence and circulars, coupled with c) manifest partiality, bias and undue interest or haste, considering the circumstances of the person, place and time, and d) Ignorantia juris non excusat.
Ignorantia juris non excusat or Ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law is no excuse") is a public policy holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because he or she was unaware of its content; that is, persons have presumed knowledge of the law. The rationale behind the doctrine is that if ignorance was an excuse, persons charged with criminal offenses or the subject of civil lawsuits would merely claim they were unaware of the law in question to avoid liability, whether criminal or civil. Thus, the law imputes knowledge of all laws to all persons within the jurisdiction no matter how transiently. In the Criminal Law, although ignorance may not go to guilt, it can be a consideration in sentence, particularly where the law is unclear or the defendant sought advice from law enforcement or regulatory officials.

CA JUSTICE ROMEO BARZA – CHAMPION OF TRO = 5

Friday, March 16, 2007

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/mar/16/yehey/metro/20070316met3.html

Puno orders inventory of TROs issued by appeals court
By JOMAR CANLAS, Reporter

THE Supreme Court will inventory all temporary restraining orders issued by the Court of Appeals from January determine if some justices and court employees had “sold” the TROs. The inventory was revealed by Chief Justice Reynato Puno in an interview with The Manila Times. Supreme Court Judicial Reform Program Administrator Evelyn Dumdum has asked Elisa Pilar-Longalong, the Court of Appeals’ clerk of court, to audit the TROs issued beginning last January.

Longalong informed the Supreme Court there were 68 TROs issued during the period. Based on the records submitted by the clerks of court of the CA’s 23 divisions, the biggest number of TROs was issued by Associate Justice Romeo Barza when he was still assigned in Cebu. Barza has since been stationed in Manila. In the report of Mercedita G. Dadole-Ignacio, Barza issued five TROs from January 18 to February 26. The orders involve the cases of Sun Life of Canada v. National Labor Relations Commission, Armed Forces of the Phils. v. Yolanda Lauron, Doloreich A. Dumaluan v. Ombudsman Merce­ditas Gutierrez, Assumption Iloilo v. Fedy T. Bhuiyan and O.G. Holdings Corp. v. Environmental Management Bureau.

CA Presiding Justice Ruben Reyes sees nothing wrong in issuing TROs, but said it is different when there is money involved. Puno has summoned the chairmen of the 17 divisions of the CA and ordered them to solve the growing corruption in the Court. The Times has learned that political and administrative cases decided by the Office of the Ombudsman were a primary source of corruption in the CA.

ON TARGET - Of golf and graft

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=55793

By Ramon Tulfo - Inquirer - Last updated 00:56am (Mla time) 03/20/2007

The son of a well-known retired Supreme Court justice has a lot of judges and justices in his “stable.” One of these judges plays golf with the lawyers of litigants. During rounds of golf, negotiations and arrangements are made.

Another contact, a Court of Appeals justice, most recently had a serious medical problem. After that problem, in which this magistrate claims to have a “spiritual reawakening,” his “asking price” for a case to be settled in his division has trebled. As for that son of the prominent retired high court justice, I wonder if his father knows what he’s doing.

9. CAV– VP Thelma Chiong identifies:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=57128


ON TARGET - Dirtier by the dozen
Inquirer - By Ramon Tulfo - Last updated 01:57am (Mla time) 03/27/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- The Supreme Court is reportedly investigating the activities of the so-called “Dirty Dozen” at the Court of Appeals, my sources told me. The “Dirty Dozen” are justices who demand bribes from litigants whose cases have been elevated to the appellate court.
The Crusade Against Violence-Visayas chapter has written the Supreme Court through Christopher Lock, court administrator, expressing support for the plan to abolish the Court of Appeals branch in Cebu.

“We have received a lot of information about this ‘justice for sale’ corruption issue,” said Thelma Chiong, the group’s national vice president. “It may not be a cause for wonder that Visayas magistrates, whose wives hail from the Visayas, prefer to be appointed to the Court of Appeals-Cebu,” Chiong added. “Should the worst come that you decide to abolish the Court of Appeals-Cebu for justice’s sake, you have our full support,” she added. The CAV-Visayas Chapter is just one among many groups that have complained against the alleged corruption in this particular court. I’ve talked to a lot of lawyers in Cebu who confirm the blatant corruption there. “The corruption among the justices (in Cebu) makes one retch, Mon,” said a lawyer who has cases pending in the appellate court.

10. Invoking the Demetria ruling that newspaper reports can trigger the filing of administrative complaints even without the benefit of formal complaint, complainant implores the benevolence of this Court to forthwith docket this complaint and Order Justice Gutierrez and Jomar Canlas to tell, submit, and file the 12 names, to testify and perform their duties as officer of the Court with sworn duty under her oath as lawyer and as journalist, respectively, so that respondents would be forthwith prevented from peddling more court processes, to the irreparable injury of the litigants and the legal profession.

LEGAL BASIS AND PRECEDENT FOR DOCKETING THIS CASE

“A.M. No. 00-7-09-CA March 27, 2001

IN RE: DEROGATORY NEWS ITEMS CHARGING COURT OF APPEALS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE DEMETRIO DEMETRIA WITH INTERFERENCE ON BEHALF OF A SUSPECTED DRUG QUEEN: COURT OF APPEALS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE DEMETRIO G. DEMETRIA.

“Such is this administrative charge triggered by newspaper accounts which appeared on the 21 July 2000 issues of The Manila Standard, The Manila Times, Malaya, The Philippine Daily Inquirer and Today. The national dailies collectively reported that Court of Appeals Associate Justice Demetrio G. Demetria tried to intercede on behalf of suspected Chinese drug queen Yu Yuk Lai, alias Sze Yuk Lai, who went in and out of prison to play in a Manila casino. That same day, 21 July 2000, Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr., issued a Memorandum to Justice Demetria directing him to comment on the derogatory allegations in the news items.”

11. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, in view of the IRREPARABLE damage to the legal profession if these sales are not stopped at the earliest opportunity. If these 12 Justices WHO had already been IDENTIFIED by Justice Gutierrez (and that the same WATCH list is essentially the same in the possession of the Court justices according to the reliable reports quoted), would not be forthwith AUDITED and placed under preventive suspension, then, the entire judiciary and many litigants would be forever under the mercy of these evil jurists / mercenaries / merchants of temples of injustice. Ergo, for the PURSUIT OF TRUTH and vindication of the judicial department, and legal profession, complainant included / impleaded as necessary and proper parties –

under the explicit provisions of Secs. 6, 8, 9 11 and 14 of Rule 3 of the Revised Rules of Court, so that this landmark controversy affecting the entire nation may be speedily resolved without regards to technicalities:

Office of the Court Administrator,
OCAD, Supreme Court, Manila,

Hon. Tanodbayan Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez,
Office of the Ombudsman,
Ombudsman Building,
Agham Road, North Triangle,
Diliman, Quezon City 1101,



Jose Vicente B. Salazar,
IBP National President,
IBP Building, No.15 Julia Vargas Avenue,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines,


Jomar Canlas,
Reporter, The Manila Times,
371 A. Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila


Thelma Chiong.
National Vice-President,
CRUSADE AGAINST VIOLENCE
National Office:14th Saguitarius Bldg.Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village,MakatiTelefax: 02- 813-0473 – (Jade)



“Sec. 6. Permissive joinder of parties.
All persons in whom or against whom any right to relief in respect to or arising out of the same transaction or series of transactions is alleged to exist, whether jointly, severally, or in the alternative, may, except as otherwise provided in these Rules, join as plaintiffs or be joined as defendants in one complaint, where any question of law or fact common to all such plaintiffs or to all such defendants may arise in the action; but the court may make such orders as may be just to prevent any plaintiff or defendant from being embarrassed or put to expense in connection with any proceedings in which he may have no interest.

Sec. 8. Necessary party.
A necessary party is one who is not indispensable but who ought to be joined as a party if complete relief is to be accorded as to those already parties, or for a complete determination or settlement of the claim subject of the action.

Sec. 11. Misjoinder and non-joinder of parties.
Neither misjoinder nor non-joinder of parties is ground for dismissal of an action. Parties may be dropped or added by order of the court on motion of any party or on its own initiative at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just. Any claim against a misjoined party may be severed and proceeded with separately.

Sec. 14. Unknown identity or name of defendant.
Whenever the identity or name of a defendant is unknown, he may be sued as the unknown owner, heir, devisee, or by such other designation as the case may require; when his identity or true name is discovered, the pleading must be amended accordingly.”
12. Complainant invokes the liberal interpretation of the Rules, especially jurisprudence on administrative cases which in no uncertain terms teaches that the instant administrative case is not governed by the ordinary rules of procedure.

The ACCUSATION/CHARGES
With Legal Argument and Memorandum of Law / Authorities

With due respect

Undersigned complainant charges / accuses respondents Barza / DIRTY DOZEN identified in the List of Justice Gutierrez ---
with ---

a. conducts unbecoming of lawyers, bribery, graft and corruption, gross ignorance of the law, gross misconduct, manifest undue interest, “selling” temporary restraining orders, extortion,

Respondents, with malice and bad faith, let themselves and their offices to commit SIN, and / or allowed the prestige of our positions as magistrates to be jeopardized;

b. professional indiscretion, violation of oaths of offices and their duties as attorneys or counselors-at-law, which include the statutory grounds enumerated under Sec. 27 of Rule 138, Rules of Court (Arrieta vs. Llosa, 282 SCRA 248), including grossly unethical behavior, bias, prejudice, extreme partiality, malice and bad faith in the proceedings regarding their litigants’ cases, inter alia,
c. grave VIOLATIONS of ---

i. Sec. 20 (a), Rule 138, Rules of Court,

ii. Canons 1, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 2, 2.01, 2.03, 2.04, 3, 3.01, 3.02, & 3.10, Code of Judicial Conduct – in that they miserably failed to be the embodiment of competence, integrity, and independence; they failed to have administered justice to complainant impartially and without delay; they failed to have resisted pressure and influence of their co-conspirators/detractors (due to his ardent desire to be promoted, for power, lust for glory, money); they did not behave to promote public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary; they conveyed to the public, an impression that they were so powerful/in a special position to influence others; they failed to follow the strict mandates of Rules 140/138, Rules of Court, and the Bill of Rights, RULE OF LAW/ADMINISTRATIVE due process/rule of law; they failed to diligently ascertain the facts and the applicable law in the said administrative proceeding; they failed to maintain professional competence;
iii. Canons 10, 10.01, 10.03, 11 & 11.04, Code of Professional Responsibility, as lawyer/counselor ---
they did falsehood, attempted to have converted their hearings and proceeses of litigants into Moro-Moro, a farce so to speak; they misused the law and rules to defeat the end of justice; R.A. 6713, Code of Ethical Standards for Government Officials --- the ethics and professionalism required of them by its circulars;


iv. Revised Administrative Code of 1987 as amended, on their oppression, bad faith/malice; The Civil Service Law, rules and regulations, including the constitutional mandate that “public office is a public trust, public officers shall serve with the highest degree of responsibility, integrity, efficiency, xxx.” (Businos vs. Ricafort, 283 SCRA 407).

These violations/acts and omissions of respondents definitely show them to be wanting in moral character and probity/good demeanor or unworthy to continue as officers of the Court, or unfit or unsafe person to enjoy the privileges of attorneys or for conducts which tend to bring reproach on the legal profession or to injure it in the favorable opinion of the public. They clearly demonstrated attitudes and courses of conduct wholly inconsistent with the approved professional standards, of having failed to live up to their duties as lawyers in consonance with the strictures of the lawyer’s or judge’s oaths, and the cited Canons and Codes, thereby having occasioned unwarranted sufferings and humiliations and hardships on litigants. They were propelled by ill motives and malicious intentions, coupled with greed and lust for money, power or promotion, having failed in conscientiously seeing to it that justice permeates every aspect of their duties and profession, in conformity with the avowed duties of worthy members and officers of the Bar and the Bench.


Locus Standi

1. Complainant is a Filipino Citizen, a taxpayer, and a registered voter of 123 Dahlia, Alido, Malolos, Bulacan, his home and postal address, where he may be served with court processes, orders and judgments.

2. As a citizen, taxpayer and registered voter, undersigned has LOCUS STANDI or legal standing to file this case, is an interested / real party-in-interest and has direct, special and extra-ordinary interest in the subject matters of this landmark case.

NATURE, SPECIAL PURPOSE AND TRANSCENDENTAL VALUE OF THE COMPLAINT; GENERAL, SPECIAL AND DIRECT INTERESTS OF PETITIONER IN THIS CASE; IRREPARABLE INJURY TO THE NATION / COMPLAINANT


The matter is a delicate one, quite obviously, and must thus be dealt with utmost circumspection, to avoid any FURTHER question regarding the immense, rampant and unprecedented corruption in the Court of Appeals which had never been exposed, published and seen since 1901.
The issues posed by the petition / complaint transcend the persons of complainant, necessary parties and respondents. These issues affect some of our most deeply held values in democracy --- the protection of civil and judicial rights, the tarnishing and perhaps total destruction of the judicial department/our temples of justice. The petition and complaint at bar concern all these values. It is the people on the line. It is we.

3. RIGHT TO INFORMATION: As a citizen, taxpayer and registered voter, complainant has a constitutional right to information on all matters of public concern, not the least of which are the names in the watch list of Justice Gutierrez duly published in the said papers. She and Jomar Canlas cannot in the name of confidentiality (of the names given to them by John Doe informer) refuse nor delay the PUBLIC DISCLOSURE of their names in the list. THIS COURT OF LAST RESORT has the moral and legal DUTY under its traditional and historical name BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY, to order her and Canlas to submit the names in this case, and forthwith. These 12 dirty jurists must be tried and removed under the Constitutional mandate. Complainant hereby asks this PUNO Court to leave a LEGACY of TRUTH and PUNISHMENT of hoodlum in robes, MERCHANTS of injustice and evil. We demand nothing less.

EARLY RESOLUTION DEMANDED BY PUBLIC GOOD

4. Until this petition/complaint is finally resolved, the entire legal profession, the judiciary and the litigants, inter alia, remain in the dark.
FINAL RECOMMENDATION:

Complainant respectfully submits that there is only ONE-STOP SOLOMONIC, LEGAL, CONSTITUTIONAL AND SPEEDY REMEDY AND SOLUTION TO OUST THESE MERCHANTS:

JUDICIAL AUDIT with PREVENTIVE SUSPENSION & FINALLY, EUPHEMISM CALLED ‘GROSS IGNORANCE OF THE LAW” – ASUNCION REMOVAL PRECEDENT.

Bribery and corruption cannot be punished except by entrapment which is rarest and almost impossible due to high-tech conspiracy called TWO 2 TANGO. Corrupt Lawyers and Jurists conspire with police enforcers to burry the truth. This PUNO-QUISUMBING COURT must perforce leave us a 2009-2010 LEGACY OF AND IRON HAND AGAINST CORRUPT JURISTS, LEST WE SEE THE PAINS SUFFERED BY THE ENTIRE JUDICIARY AND THE LITIGANTS. AMEN.

COPIES OF THE NEWS REPORTS ABOVE-QUOTED ARE ATTACHED AS INTEGRAL PART HEREOF, COLLECTIVELY MARKED AS ANNEX “A”.


RELIEF

IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOREGOING, it is respectfully prayed that the instant Verified Letter-Complaint-Affidavit against 12 respondents THE DIRTY DOZEN CA Justices John Does and Jane Does, be forthwith docketed, duly noted and granted/admitted; and the instant administrative case be given due course, and referred to an Investigator and/or Commissioner for investigation, report & recommendation.

It is Petitioned that JUDICIAL AUDIT be forthwith conducted by the OCAD on these 12 CA Justices and that an Order be issued forthwith to Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez & Jomar Canlas, to Submit the “Ombudsman Watch List” / Names of the 12 Respondents to the Court so that this Complaint may be Formally Amended and Respondents duly summoned accordingly.

More specifically, it is especially petitioned that a CA JUSTCE ROMEO F. BARZA full-blown judicial audit and investigation be conducted on these cases and the TROs issued by:


“Based on the records submitted by the clerks of court of the CA’s 23 divisions, the biggest number of TROs was issued by Associate Justice Romeo Barza when he was still assigned in Cebu. Barza has since been stationed in Manila. In the report of Mercedita G. Dadole-Ignacio, Barza issued five TROs from January 18 to February 26. The orders involve the cases of Sun Life of Canada v. National Labor Relations Commission, Armed Forces of the Phils. v. Yolanda Lauron, Doloreich A. Dumaluan v. Ombudsman Merce­ditas Gutierrez, Assumption Iloilo v. Fedy T. Bhuiyan and O.G. Holdings Corp. v. Environmental Management Bureau.”

Further, it is respectfully petitioned that after filing of respondents’ COMMENTS / ANSWERs, after due notice, hearing and REPORT / RECOMMENDATIONS by the Investigator / Commissioner, judgment be rendered dismissing respondents from service, with prejudice and recommending the filing of criminal charges against them for violations of R.A. 6713 and R.A. 3019, and under R.A. 1379, Forfeiture of Illegally Gotten Wealth.

Furthermore, pendente lite, it is prayed that respondents be placed under indefinite preventive suspension.
Other relief and remedies are likewise prayed for.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I signed this letter-affidavit-complaint, this 28thth day of March, 2007, at Malolos City, BULACAN.

Judge FLORENTINO V. FLORO, JR.,
Complainant,
123 Dahlia, Alido, Malolos, 3000 BULACAN,
Tel/#(044) 662-82-03; (Presiding Judge, Branch 73, RTC, MALABON, NCJR, M.M.)
[I.D. Number: RTCJ-317 / EDP Number: 38676300; ROLL OF ATTORNEY’S NO. 32800, Pg. No. 60, Book No. XIV (Note: Motion For Leave to Admit 4th Appeal to be reinstated is pending.]
PTR No. 503411, dated 1-11-’07, Malolos, Bulacan.


NOTICE & REQUEST

TO: Atty. Ma. Luisa D. Villarama,
Clerk of Court, En Banc, SUPREME COURT, MANILA
c/o Atty. FELIPA ANAMA & Atty. LANI PAPA,

Please DOCKET and AGENDUM the foregoing pleading for the deliberation and Resolution of the Honorable Court, immediately upon receipt hereof.

Judge FLORENTINO V. FLORO, JR.,
Compalinant


VERIFICATION/CERTIFICATION OF NON-FORUM SHOPPING & AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE

I, Judge Florentino V. Floro, Jr., under oath, depose/say, that:

I am the complainant in this case;
I caused the preparation, signed and read the initial complaint duly filed in this case, and all the contents/allegations thereof are true and correct of my own personal knowledge or based on authentic records.

I CERTIFY that I have not commenced any action or filed any claim involving the same issues (IN THIS COMPLAINT) against respondents in any court, tribunal, agency and to the best of my knowledge, no such action or claim is pending therein, and if I should later learn that a similar action or proceeding has been filed/pending, before any court/agency, then I will notify this Court within 5 days from my knowledge thereof.
I CERTIFY that I served copies of this complaint and annexes upon respondents via LBC mail per the Office of Presiding Justice Ruben Reyes, Court of Appeals, Manila.

Judge FLORENTINO V. FLORO, JR.,
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, on this 28th day of March, 2007, hereat Malolos City, Bulacan, affiant exhibited to me his CTC NO. CC12005 # 21783592, issued at Malolos, Bulacan, on 2-27, 2006.

DOC. NO. 351, PAGE NO. 72, BERNAR D. FAJARDO
BOOK NO. 74, SERIES OF 2007. Notary Public,
Until Jan.31, 2008,
PTR NO. 2417109, 1- 3,’07,
Atty.’s Roll No. 33633,
IBP OR # 688744, 1-5,’07
Malolos, Bulacan.

COPY FURNISHED:

Office of the Court Administrator, (Personal Service)
OCAD, Supreme Court, Manila,

By LBC mail with receipt and return card.

Explanation: Due to lack of time and messenger and impracticality, I served copies of this complaint and annexes to both respondents by LBC mail with attached receipts, NEXT PAGE.

Hon. Romeo F. Barza,
Respondent,
Court of Appeals,
Ma. Orosa St., Ermita, Manila.


Hon. Tanodbayan Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez,
Office of the Ombudsman,
Ombudsman Building,
Agham Road, North Triangle,
Diliman, Quezon City 1101.


Jose Vicente B. Salazar,
IBP National President,
IBP Building, No.15 Julia Vargas Avenue,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines.

Jomar Canlas,
Reporter, The Manila Times,
371 A. Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila.

Thelma Chiong.
National Vice-President,
CRUSADE AGAINST VIOLENCE National Office:14th Saguitarius Bldg.Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village,MakatiTelefax: 02- 813-0473 – (Jade).


Respondents “The Dirty Dozen” 12 CA Justices John Does and Jane Does,
Thru CA Presiding Justice Ruben Reyes,
Court of Appeals,
Ma. Orosa St. Ermita, Manila.

A.C. No. 7324 Disbarment (Docketed) Case of Judge Floro vs. C.J. DAVIDE, JR.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2945

On September 5, 2006, The Philippine Supreme Court, Office of the Bar Confidant, gave Due Course and DOCKETED Judge Floro's LANDMARK DISBARMENT case against Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr. et al.

On September 8, 2006, the Supreme Court's Office of the Clerk of Court formally received the Yellow Rollo (photo copy above), and included this FIRST CASE in Philippine Judiciary on tuesday, September 12, 2006, for RAFFLE.

Philippine Psychic Judge Florentino Floro Filed, on August 30/Wednesday, 2006 -

A) DISBARMENT CASES Versus:

-with the Office of the Bar Confidant [(02) 526-8122; 525-7929, duly signed and initialed by Wilson, 3:20 p.m., Aug. 30, 2006],

(Ret.) Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr., Atty. Teresita Cruz-Sison, Atty. Alfredo L. Benipayo, (Ret.) Justice Pedro A. Ramirez, Atty. Thelma C. Bahia, Atty. Mary Jane Dacarra-Buenaventura, Atty. Esmeralda Galang-Dizon, Judge Benjamin M. Aquino, Jr., Atty. Ismael Khan, Atty. Mario E. Ongkiko, & (Ret.) Justice Bernardo P. Pardo,

B) Administrative Complaint versus: -with the Office of Administrative Services, Complaint and Investigation Division, S.C. Personnel, under Atty. Eden T. Candelaria [(02) 552-9552, duly signed and initialed by Manny, 2:30 p.m., Aug. 30, 2006],Mrs. Marilyn Puno Santiago (Private Secretary and Sister of Justice Reynato Puno and Dep Higher Ed Chair Carlito Puno) and Jasmin Mateo,(Court Personnel, Office of S.C. Senior Associate Justice Reynato Puno), and

C) Verified Letter/Omnibus Motion for Leave of Court to Admit And Granta) this Second Motion for Partial Reconsideration [of par. 2), page 74, of the DECISION (in this case)] andb) these Conjunctive Omnibus Motions - - -

with the Office of the Court Administrator, Legal, Documentation Division, [(02) 525-7158; 536-9797, duly signed and initialed by Wilson, 2:30 p.m., Aug. 30, 2006],

i) to Annul the Resolution of 11 August, 2006 [under Soria vs. Villegas, allowing 2nd/3rd Motions for Reconsideration of Dismissal of Judges, 11-18, 2004, A.M. No. RTJ-3-1812],

ii) to INHIBIT/DISQUALIFY S.C. Associate Justices Velasco, Jr., Austria-Martinez, Carpio-Morales, Corona & Ynares-Santiago,

iii) to Declare an Absolute DENIAL of DUE PROCESS of LAW and the Draft Decision prepared/supervised/finalized by Atty. Ma. Isabel Providencia Timbangkaya Solis a nullity,

iv) to DISBAR / Cite Atty. Mario Ongkiko in/for Indirect Contempt of Court & Marylin Puno Santiago and Jasmin Mateo for Obstruction of Justice (Using the Supreme Court Conference Hall for 3 hours – SPANISH CARD READING - to Convince (Mislead) Judge Floro to Predict the Appointment of Justice Puno as 22nd Chief Justice) and

v) To Lift the 7 Years Unconstitutional Suspension, Pendente Lite

---With---

Special Manifestation of:

a) Statement of Gratitute and Notice of Dismissal of Judge Floro’s Counsels-of-Record Atty. Batiller, Jr. & Atty. Saguisag (per Justice Hermosisima, Jr.’s suggestion, Feb. 10, 2006) and

b) Notice of filing of separate Disbarment Cases against (Ret.) Chief Justice Davide, Jr., (Ret.) Justices Pardo and Ramirez, Attys. Cruz-Sison, Benipayo, Ongkiko, Dacarra-Buenaventura, Dizon, Khan, Bahia, and Judge Aquino, Jr.

“Truth is the Greatest Bomb” - I failed to find Kindness in my Country

“I suffered the 7 years Longest Suspension in World Judicial History due to a MORTAL SIN - refusal of an incumbent magistrate to tell the truth to this Court. I asked for Justice but I was given equity. However, I found KINDNESS and great sympathy from the far, far other side of the earth: from the HEARTS of more than 1,000 + bloggers / 5,000 + forum discussions users/members, and 100+ international reports/wires headlines (unprecedented in the chronicles of the earth), that made me and my God’s angels or 3 spirit guides IMMORTAL in the indelible memory of world history”.---

The Healing Judge Floro

Philippine Psychic Judge Florentino Floro Files, on August 30/Wednesday, 2006 ---

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2945

Philippine Psychic Judge Florentino Floro Files, on August 30/Wednesday, 2006 -

A) DISBARMENT CASES Versus: -

with the Office of the Bar Confidant [(02) 526-8122; 525-7929, duly signed and initialed by Wilson, 3:20 p.m., Aug. 30, 2006],

(Ret.) Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr., Atty. Teresita Cruz-Sison, Atty. Alfredo L. Benipayo, (Ret.) Justice Pedro A. Ramirez, Atty. Thelma C. Bahia, Atty. Mary Jane Dacarra-Buenaventura, Atty. Esmeralda Galang-Dizon, Judge Benjamin M. Aquino, Jr., Atty. Ismael Khan, Atty. Mario E. Ongkiko, & (Ret.) Justice Bernardo P. Pardo,

B) Administrative Complaint versus: -

with the Office of Administrative Services, Complaint and Investigation Division, S.C. Personnel, under Atty. Eden T. Candelaria [(02) 552-9552, duly signed and initialed by Manny, 2:30 p.m., Aug. 30, 2006],

Mrs. Marilyn Puno Santiago (Private Secretary and Sister of Justice Reynato Puno and Dep Higher Ed Chair Carlito Puno) and Jasmin Mateo,(Court Personnel, Office of S.C. Senior Associate Justice Reynato Puno), and

C) Verified Letter/Omnibus Motion for Leave of Court to Admit And Grant

a) this Second Motion for Partial Reconsideration [of par. 2), page 74, of the DECISION (in this case)] and

b) these Conjunctive Omnibus Motions - - - with the Office of the Court Administrator, Legal, Documentation Division, [(02) 525-7158; 536-9797, duly signed and initialed by Wilson, 2:30 p.m., Aug. 30, 2006],

i) to Annul the Resolution of 11 August, 2006 [under Soria vs. Villegas, allowing 2nd/3rd Motions for Reconsideration of Dismissal of Judges, 11-18, 2004, A.M. No. RTJ-3-1812],

ii) to INHIBIT/DISQUALIFY S.C. Associate Justices Velasco, Jr., Austria-Martinez, Carpio-Morales, Corona & Ynares-Santiago,

iii) to Declare an Absolute DENIAL of DUE PROCESS of LAW and the Draft Decision prepared/supervised/finalized by Atty. Ma. Isabel Providencia Timbangkaya Solis a nullity,

iv) to DISBAR / Cite Atty. Mario Ongkiko in/for Indirect Contempt of Court & Marylin Puno Santiago and Jasmin Mateo for Obstruction of Justice (Using the Supreme Court Conference Hall for 3 hours – SPANISH CARD READING - to Convince (Mislead) Judge Floro to Predict the Appointment of Justice Puno as 22nd Chief Justice) and v) To Lift the 7 Years Unconstitutional Suspension, Pendente Lite ---

With--- Special Manifestation of:

a) Statement of Gratitute and Notice of Dismissal of Judge Floro’s Counsels-of-Record Atty. Batiller, Jr. & Atty. Saguisag (per Justice Hermosisima, Jr.’s suggestion, Feb. 10, 2006) and

b) Notice of filing of separate Disbarment Cases against (Ret.) Chief Justice Davide, Jr., (Ret.) Justices Pardo and Ramirez, Attys. Cruz-Sison, Benipayo, Ongkiko, Dacarra-Buenaventura, Dizon, Khan, Bahia, and Judge Aquino, Jr.

“Truth is the Greatest Bomb” - I failed to find Kindness in my Country

“I suffered the 7 years Longest Suspension in World Judicial History due to a MORTAL SIN - refusal of an incumbent magistrate to tell the truth to this Court. I asked for Justice but I was given equity. However, I found KINDNESS and great sympathy from the far, far other side of the earth: from the HEARTS of more than 1,000 + bloggers / 5,000 + forum discussions users/members, and 100+ international reports/wires headlines (unprecedented in the chronicles of the earth), that made me and my God’s angels or 3 spirit guides IMMORTAL in the indelible memory of world history”.

--- The Healing Judge Floro

The Curse, Spell and Karma - Ultimate Weapon of Luis, Armand and Angel

The Violet and White LIGHTS of the 3 Mystic Spirit Guides



Sagada, Mountain Province

Our Lady of Marinduque

Banaue Rice Terraces, the 8th Wonder of the World, View Point, IFUGAO

El Kabayo Equestrian Center, SBMA, Subic, Olongapo City, Zambales

Paoay World Heritage Church, Ilocos Norte

Judge Floro was ordered by Luis to visit and travel the most powerful places in the Philippines on First Fridays, to follow their mission - to cleanse the Philippine Judiciary and Government of corruption and evil via the flashing of the highest lights, VIOLET and WHITE, thereby, inflicting temporal punishment of sickness, lingering illnesses, accidents, KARMA, CURSE and the SPELL upon those who receive BRIBES and abuse power (upon their loved ones and up to the 7th generation).

Psychic Judge Floro traveled these places, inter alia, from the very First Friday on 1998 until the last First Friday prior to the release of the Psychosis Decision and Resolution.

It is on these most powerful places also, that Judge Floro prophesied the positive enthronement of Philippine supreme court justices De Leon, Corona, Carpio Morales, Callejo, Sr., Tinga, Chico-Nazario, Cancio-Garcia, the cursed non-appointment of 7 times nominated Justice Alfredo L. Benipayo - including the December 21, 2005 presidential appointment of C.J. Panganiban, the 2001 downfall of Erap, the medical operations of 8 supreme court justices, and the murder of 11 judges (record, from July 20, 1999 until today), inter alia.

Mortis Angelus

The ANGEL of DEATH

The Healing Hands of Judge Floro - which were GIFTED on June 2, 1999 to have permanent golden spiritual and physical color. These emit extreme heat upon medically affected areas of patients properly disposed to be healed.

On November 5, 2004, natal day, Luis permanently affixed the violet and white lights upon these hands - which empowered the instrumental palms to inflict illnesses, accidents, KARMA, CURSE and SPELL upon all those touched by the same who receive BRIBES and abuse power, or practive EVIL.

Judge Floro, one year old.

Judge Floro's Parents, Milagros and Florentino, Sr. were married in 1952 at the Miraculous Medal / St. Vincent's Parish Church, San Marcelino, Manila, PHILIPPINES, ASIA.

Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte - the 2 kilometer bridge in the panoramic, pristine beaches - where Judge Floro prophesied on 2004, the Twin Deaths and Mournings of the entire Supreme Court and Judicial and Bar Council, upon promulgation and release of the 7 years CURSED 2 push carts Rollo / Decision / Resolution - drafted by Ma. Isabel Providencia Timbangkaya Solis and penned by MINITA VIRAY CHICO-NAZARIO, which made the Psychic Judge and the 3 Mystic Dwarves, immortal MARTYRS of Filipino Justice in the indellible memory of world judicial history, on April 7, May 3, and August 11, 2006.

The Ecstasy and The Glory: July 14, 2004, Minita Viray Chico-Nazario sworn as the 15th Supreme Court Justice – Psyhic Judge's March 12, 2004 Prophecy

Finally, Nazario becomes SC justice

As the teen princess and queen of Masantol, Pampanga at the age of 16, and Ginang San Miguel in 1997, Minita was and is really destined by God to become the 15th Supreme Court Justice (as predicted by the Psychic Judge) and pre-destined to have penned the April 6, 2006 75-pages "PYSCHOSIS" Decision removing the Psychic Judge from Judicial Service due to belief in LUIS, ARMAND and ANGEL. Next day, April 7, 2006 (and on May 4, 2006, also), ANGEL celebrated her birthday with a historical and unprecedented PUBLICATION of more than 2,000 world reports, news headlines, stories and blogs about the PSYCHIC JUDGE and the 3 MYSTIC DWARVES.

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news06_april07_2006

http://www.manilastandardonline.com/mnlastd/?page=politics02_july14_2004

By Christine Herrera

Dream, believe, survive!

Last February, Malacañang announced her appointment to the Supreme Court, Sandiganbayan Justice Minita Chico-Nazario went to see Chief Justice Hilario Davide to take her oath as a Supreme Court justice. But she was told by Davide that Malacañang had not forwarded her appointment papers to the high tribunal. She also had nothing to show to Davide.It turned out that Malacañang recalled her appointment.

She took off where she left off, went back to Sandiganbayan and did her job the best way she knew how. She did not stop believing that someday soon, she would join the high tribunal.Today, Nazario finally gets her ultimate dream. She will take her oath of office as the 15th SC justice at 3 p.m. in Malacañang today, according to Sandiganbayan spokesperson Renato Bocar.

http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl100668.htm

SANDIGANBAYAN Presiding Justice Minita V. Chico Nazario has been sworn in as the newest member of the Supreme Court. In a simple oath taking ceremony held in Malacang, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formally installed Justice Nazario as the 14th Associate Justice, filling in the vacancy created with the retirement of Associate Justice Josue N. Bellosillo.

The new Associate Justice is a native of San Miguel, Bulacan, and is married to Rodolfo Nazario with whom she has three children. She was the first woman Justice of the Sandiganbayan, and Chairwoman of the Sandiganbayan's Fifth Division since 1997. She was also Chairwoman of the Sandiganbayan?s Special Division that was constituted by the Supreme Court to try the Estrada cases.

Justice Nazario has served for 40 long years in the judiciary, nine of which were at the graft court. She has never been charged criminally or administratively by any party-litigant or lawyer in connection with the performance of her duties.Prior to her stint at the Sandiganbayan, which tries cases of graft and corruption involving government officials, Nazario was a Regional Trial Court Judge of Binan Laguna starting in 1987. Before her appointment as an Associate Justice of the Sandiganbayan in 1993, she served in various positions, notably Senior Judicial Assistant, Office of Chief Justice Fred Ruiz Castro in 1977-79; Senior Judicial Assistant to the Deputy Court Administrator in 1979-81, Division Clerk of Court, First Division, Sandiganbayan, in 1981-87; and Regional Trial Court Judge, Binan Laguna in 1987-93.She obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines in 1962 and passed the Bar in November of that same year.

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2004/07/20/OPED2004072014438.html

http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph/images/j.chico-nazario.png

Fairy Tale and a Castle-Like Home in Sucat, Paranaque

Profile

CHICO-NAZARIO, Minita Viray

Date of Birth: December 5, 1939

Place of Birth: San Miguel, Bulacan

ADDRESS Metro Manila: 299 Gov. A.Santos, BF Homes, Sucat, Parañaque

Career History

She started as Clerk, City Fiscal’s Office of Manila; March 1963-September 1, 1963; Social secretary, Office of the Secretary of Justice, February 1963-November 1963;

Elementary education - Our Lady of Loreto College, Sampaloc, Manila 1952

Secondary education - Our Lady of Loreto College 1956

Associate in Arts University of the Philippines 1958

Bachelor of Laws University of the Philippines 1962

Total Assets (in pesos): 23,300,000.00

Total Liabilities (in pesos): 0.00

Net Worth (in pesos): 23,300,000.00

http://www.i-site.ph/Databases/Judiciary/Sandiganbayan/personal/

chico-nazario-personal.html


Finally, Nazario becomes SC justice
http://www.manilastandardonline.com/mnlastd/?page=politics02_july14_2004

By Christine Herrera
Dream, believe, survive!
Last February, Malacañang announced her appointment to the Supreme Court, Sandiganbayan Justice Minita Chico-Nazario went to see Chief Justice Hilario Davide to take her oath as a Supreme Court justice.
But she was told by Davide that Malacañang had not forwarded her appointment papers to the high tribunal. She also had nothing to show to Davide.
It turned out that Malacañang recalled her appointment.
She took off where she left off, went back to Sandiganbayan and did her job the best way she knew how. She did not stop believing that someday soon, she would join the high tribunal.
Today, Nazario finally gets her ultimate dream. She will take her oath of office as the 15th SC justice at 3 p.m. in Malacañang today, according to Sandiganbayan spokesperson Renato Bocar.
http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl100668.htm

The Agony: Sandiganbayan Justice Minita Viray Chico-Nazario; Triple Destiny – Twin December 5 & November 5

5 December, 1939 - Birth of Minita Viray Chico-Nazario

5 December, 1925 - Birth and Death of Milagros V. Floro ...
5 December, 1995 - (Mother of Psychic Judge Floro)

5 November, 1953 - Birth - Judge Florentino Velasquez Floro
5 November, 1997 – JBC Application of the Psychic Judge
4/5 November, 1998 – Appointment of Judge Floro

The Psychic Judge’s Public Fight against Destiny of Choice

Fighting Justice Alfredo L. Benipayo (nominated 7 times, since 2000, but failed) the FIRM’s choice for the vacant Supreme Court post) and another powerful JBC nominee (the choice of Pancho Villaraza), the Psychic Judge is the sole litigant who fought publicly (G.R. No. 162285. “Judge Floro vs. Justice Chico-Nazario & Justice Benipayo) against evil. Disliked by a Supreme Court Justice according to the March 12, 2005 headline of TODAY newspaper, Justice Nazario became severely depressed.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2004/03/12/news/
judge.asks.sc.to.let.nazario.take.oath.and.fill.sc.vacancy.html


Bringing the fight on the psychic arena, the Psychic Judge traveled to the tiny island of the mystical and miraculous Giant Statue of our Lady of Marinduque, Philippines. There the ferry carrying the Psychic Judge stopped and almost hit the statue (and should have exploded) where it not for the timely intervention of the King of Kings of the elementals: LUIS, with Armand and Angel.

http://www.inq7.net/nat/2004/mar/11/text/nat_8-1-p.htm

“Nazario, the first woman presiding justice of the Sandiganbayan, is possibly the first appointee in the SC's hundred-year history whose appointment was announced and then recalled before it took effect.

Nazario feeling bad, says hubby of snafu

Posted:6:01 AM (Manila Time) Mar. 11, 2004 By Juliet Labog-Javellana and Philip C. TubezaInquirer News Service

Rod Nazario said his wife had felt so bad about the apparent withdrawal of her appointment that he had to take her to Baguio last week.He said he did not bring up his wife's hurt feelings to the President. "Maybe she does not know that I am the manager of Manny Pacquiao," he said.

He also said he could not believe that Ms Macapagal would be influenced by a law firm into withdrawing his wife's appointment. Ms Macapagal signed Justice Nazario's appointment on Feb. 11 but did not make it official by sending it to the Supreme Court. "The Firm," which handles the legal affairs of the First Family, is said to have blocked the appointment.

"You know, I could not understand," Rod Nazario said. "A President of the Republic, as what I read in the papers, is being controlled by some lawyers' office regarding the judiciary. That should not be [the case]."at I am the manager of Manny Pacquiao," he said.

SANDIGANBAYAN Presiding Justice Minita Chico-Nazario feels bad that her appointment to the Supreme Court has been in limbo, her husband said Wednesday. Asked by reporters about his wife's appointment, which President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appears to have withdrawn, Rod Nazario said: "Well, of course she feels bad about it, although I believe she's also happy with the Sandiganbayan [post]. But of course, any lawyer's dream is to be in the Supreme Court. That's all I can say. Honestly, of course she's feeling bad." Nazario, business manager of former International Boxing Federation superbantamweight and now featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao, was in Malacañang for the turnover and presentation of the ring championship belt to the Filipino boxer.

In an exclusive interview with InqTV, Justice Nazario said she shared every lawyer's dream of making it to the Supreme Court, but respected the President's prerogative to make her own choices."Everyone in the judiciary, any lawyer, that is their ultimate ambition, to reach the highest post in the judiciary," she said in Filipino."But you know, she is the President. She has the discretion, the privilege, to choose kung sino ang gusto niyang ilagay sa matataas na puwesto (who she will appoint to high positions)."In the two-part interview aired Monday and Tuesday,

Nazario waxed fatalistic.

"Gayunpaman, nasa Panginoon na ang lahat na iyan (Whatever happens, it's up to the Lord). If He wants to put me there, nobody can stop Him. If he thinks I should stay here, that's okay with me too. He has given me so much already."

At Least He's Not Your Judge

PEGGY LAMM, running for Congress, in the Colorado Pols (wholly owned by www.ColoradoPols.com, LLC) wrote -

by: Colorado Pols Tue May 02, 2006 at 23:00:00 PM MDT
http://www.coloradopols.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1121

And now, for another edition of "At Least They're Not Your Legislators," we take you to the Philippines, where a judge was disbarred for consulting imaginary mystical dwarfs (or is that dwarves?) The best part...it took THREE YEARS for an investigation to determine that this guy was, you know, a sandwich short of a picnic.

From Reuters News Service:

MANILA, The Philippines - A Philippine judge who claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked for his job back after being sacked by the country?s Supreme Court.

?They should not have dismissed me for what I believed,? Florentino Floro, a trial judge in the capital?s Malabon northern suburb, told reporters after filing his appeal.
Floro was sacked last month and fined $780 (40,000 pesos) after a three-year investigation found he was incompetent, had shown bias in a case he was trying and had criticized court procedure, a ruling showed.

He told