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2006-03-31 |
CARPIO, J. |
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| It is true that lawyers can criticize the courts it is their right as citizens and their duty as officers of the court to avail of such right.[46] But, as held in In Re: Almacen, "it is [a] cardinal condition of all such criticism that it shall be bona fide, and shall not spill over the walls of decency and propriety."[47] By his unjust denigration of respondent judge, complainant exceeded the bounds of decency and propriety. By showing disrespect to and contempt for respondent judge, complainant diminished public confidence in respondent judge and, eventually, in the judiciary.[48] | |||||