The Supreme Court reprimands and fines a judge due to the delay in former senator Leila De Lima’s case.
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00:00The Supreme Court reprimands and fines a judge due to the delay in former Senator Laila de
00:06Lima's case.
00:07The Supreme Court finds Buntinlupa Regional Trial Court Presiding Judge Romeo Buenaventura
00:12guilty of misconduct for violating the new Code of Judicial Conduct and imposed an 18,000
00:17peso fine.
00:18He was also found guilty of simple neglect of duty and fined another 18,000 pesos.
00:23Buenaventura handled one of de Lima's three drug cases filed during former President Rodrigo
00:28Duterte's administration.
00:29These cases were eventually dismissed by various courts, with de Lima being granted bail in
00:34November 2023 before the last dismissal.
00:37Buenaventura initially denied de Lima's bail petition, including her appeal.
00:41He later withdrew from the case after a motion to inhibit was filed by one of de Lima's co-accused.
00:46The motion argued that Buenaventura's brother, Erwin Buenaventura, was the lawyer who assisted
00:51co-accused Ronnie Dayan in drafting an affidavit, which Dayan later testified had been coerced.
00:57USC says that Buenaventura's connection to Dayan puts him in violation of Canon 4, Section
01:014 of the new Code, which says judges shall not participate in cases where their family
01:06represents a litigant.