Judge Butuyan: Complaint before SC ‘a misadventure’
TAYUG – Let the decision and the complaint speak for themselves.
This summed up Regional Trial Court Judge Ulysses Butuyan’s reply to the administrative case filed against him before the Supreme Court.
In the one-page comment on the complaint filed by Renerio Paas, husband of the late Pasay City Judge Estrellita Paas who was murdered in her home, dated May 9, 2006, filed with the Senior Deputy Court Administrator, Judge Butuyan stated that the attachment to the complaint “abundantly showed” that he ruled and acted in accordance with law.
He stated that in as much as the complainant (Paas) perceives his order dismissing the case differently, he was constrained to state that the complaint is “but a desperate misadventure of a disgruntled litigant who mistakes an administrative action for an appropriate but long forfeited judicial remedy known to everybody as certiorari”.
Furthermore, Butuyan attached an affidavit of an RTC clerk of court allegedly showing the complainant’s inordinate agitation the very day following the issuance of an order setting the subject criminal cases for judicial determination of probable cause.
He also mentioned that masked men aboard motorcycles with no plates have been stalking him and cited a relative of the complainant, Ike Paas Jr. by some coincidence was found to be in the possession of a familiar motorcycle without a plate.
In a talk to newsmen Thursday, Butuyan conceded that ultimately the Supreme Court will determine whether it is the complainant or he who committed a mistake but added that in the end “we will have to accept everything”.
“And who am I to dictate what should happen. The Supreme Court knows best”, he said.
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