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2012-06-20 |
BRION, J. |
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| In closing, it bears stressing that "[w]hen the law is so elementary, not to know it or to act as if one does not know it constitutes gross ignorance of the law."[26] | |||||
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2005-03-31 |
YNARES-SANTIAGO, J |
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| It is elementary that a municipal trial court judge has no authority to grant bail to an accused arrested outside of his territorial jurisdiction. The requirements of Section 17(a), Rule 114 as quoted above must be complied with before a judge may grant bail.[14] The Court recognizes that not every judicial error bespeaks ignorance of the law and that, if committed in good faith, does not warrant administrative sanction, but only in cases within the parameters of tolerable misjudgment.[15] Where, however, the law is straightforward and the facts so evident, not to know it or to act as if one does not know it constitutes gross ignorance of the law.[16] | |||||