ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 146, October 21, 1968

MODIFYING ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 39 CONCERNING MR. AMANDO G. LAZARO, MUNICIPAL JUDGE OF BALUNGAO, PANGASINAN

By virtue of Administrative Order No. 39 dated April 30, 1967, Mr. Amando G. Lazaro was removed from office as Municipal Judge of Balungao, Pangasinan, for negligence in the performance of duties in that he failed to exercise the necessary circumspection which should characterize a judicial mind, resulting in the admission of a falsified bail bond and the consequent delay in the disposition of the criminal case involved.

Respondent has sought reconsideration on the ground that he had been previously reprimanded for the same act by the former Undersecretary of Justice. The Secretary of Justice, while being of the opinion that Administrative Order No. 39 of the President cannot be contested on legal grounds, feels that the penalty of removal imposed on the respondent may be moderated in view of the reprimand previously administered to him.

Wherefore, Administrative Order No. 39 dated April 30, 1967, is hereby reconsidered by modifying the penalty of removal from office imposed therein on Mr. Amando G. Lazaro to suspension from office without pay for a period of one (1) year counted from the date he was first served with a copy of the original administrative order.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JOSE J. LEIDO, JR.

Acting Executive Secretary