Judge Cecilia Corazon Dulay-Archog voluntarily recuses herself from the controversial case amid claims of bias and impartiality concerns
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Baguio Regional Trial Court Branch 7 Judge Cecilia Corazon Dulay-Archog granted the Office of the Solicitor General’s motion to inhibit, according to a document obtained by Rappler on Wednesday, November 13.potential loss of impartiality The petitioners – Windel Bolinget, Jennifer Taggaoa, Sarah Alikes, and Stephen Tauli – opposed the motion, arguing that the state lawyers’ claims were “not only untrue but also unjust and invalid.”
Yielding to the OSG’s request, she noted, could “lead the parties and all concerned to believe” the allegations of bias. She added, “The Presiding Judge painfully realizes that she is indeed a captive of vagaries and a victim of the whim and caprices of chance, and she feels that her ability to maintain her impartiality and the degree of serenity by which proceedings must be conducted and within which the judgment must be rendered has been put in serious doubt.”
State lawyers are seeking Molintas’s exclusion from the case, citing an alleged violation of the Local Government Code, specifically Title III, Section 90, which restricts council members in the legal profession from representing clients in civil cases opposing government offices.
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