Series of suspensions

JUDGE Rosabella Tormis of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities is from Tacloban City. She turned 63 last March 6.

She graduated from the University of San Carlos, is married and has two children.

She assumed office on June 22, 1999.

Her service was interrupted by suspendsions ordered in three separate adminstrative cases.

During her absence, Judge Carlos Fernando of Mandaue City was assigned to Branch 4.

Tormis was earlier reprimanded for trying to influence the course of litigation in a criminal case pending with another court.

She was also fined for P5,000 for approving bail posted by the accused in a criminal case pending before the RTC Barili although there was no showing of the unavailability of the 22 RTC judges in Cebu City.

Tormis was also found guilty of gross misconduct when she personally accepted the cash bail bond of the accused and for deliberately making untruthful statements in her comment and during the investigation of the case.

She was suspedned for six months without pay for repeated defiance of the court’s order to furnish the complainant in another administrative case of her comment.

Tormis was also in the limelight as one of several judges were investigated for irregularities in the solemnization of mariages.

The SC noted that Tormis was involved in four other administrative cases. She has two pending cases against her, said the court./Ador Vincent S. Mayol