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Supreme Court (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court (CA) has cleared a former judge named in an administrative complaint filed by his own staff, who countered his investigation into alleged anomalies in his court. In its decision published online on Wednesday, the high court dismissed the administrative complaint against former Cavite Regional Trial Court Branch 16 judge Rudiger Falcis II, court stenographer Consuelo Huertas, and process server Ariel Fernando. "Rather than erode the people's esteem for the judiciary, their intention was to ensure the trust reposed by the people to the court. Certainly, their behavior cannot be characterized as scandalous or diminishing the respect of the court," the tribunal said. Falcis, who resigned in 2017, was the subject of an administrative complaint from his former court workers after the magistrate furnished the SC with a sworn statement made by a detainee, Susana Tinoco, accusing the workers of corruption and anomalies. At the ....