Manila, July 12 -- The Supreme Court has ordered the dismissal of two lower court employees --a clerk of court, who took out from court a computer set containing information on drug cases; and a court sheriff, for soliciting money from a complainant.
In a statement Friday on the cases decided last April and June, the SC said it found Lou D. Laranjo, Clerk of Court II of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC), Lugait-Manticao-Naawan, Misamis Oriental guilty of grave misconduct and serious dishonesty and dismissed him from service.
In a letter to the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) of MCTC Presiding Judge Renato T. Arroyo said Laranjo "surreptitiously took away" the computer set used by MCTC Court Stenographer I Neza L. Malinao an...