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In Re: Macario Adriatico

Prudential Bank V Benjamin Grecia

Facts: Respondent, Benjamin Grecia after a final decision for disbarment dated

November 12, 1987 sought almost five !" petitions for readmission and motion forreconsideration and readmission as a member of the #hilippine Bar $hich $as all set

aside or denied b% the court& 'o$ever, on (a% 21, 199), (rs (aria *uisa Grecia,

respondent+s $ife $rote a letter addressed to the hief -ustice and .ssociate -ustices ofthe court stating that she has long $anted to $rite and if it need be, on bended /nees, to

as/ the ourt sincerel% to forgive her husband and permit him to practice his profession0

that it is not onl% he $ho is suffering the anguish and shame caused b% his disbarment but

also his children and herself0 that it is no$ t$o and a half 2 12" %ears since her husbandhas been disbarred and completel% $ithout an% means to support his famil%0 that their

%oungest daughter ma% altogether have to stop stud%ing0 that during these %ears, her

husband has deepl% repented and is no$ ver% humble and pra%erful and has reformed for

the better and that she pleads that her husband be forgiven and reinstated as a la$%er&

n 17 ctober 199), the 3ue4on it% hapter of the 5ntegrated Bar, submitted to the Bar

onfidant for the ourt6s consideration, Resolution No& 9))!7, adopted on 9 ctober199), pra%ing that the ourt etend its judicial clemenc% to respondent Grecia and

reinstate him as a member of the #hilippine Bar, reasoning among others, that he has

been sufficientl% punished, has reformed and rehabilitated himself, and can again beentrusted $ith the eercise of the noble profession of la$&

5n a letter, dated 21 November 199), addressed to the hief -ustice and .ssociate -ustices

of the ourt, respondent Grecia pleaded ane$ that once the ourt restores him to the

practice of la$, he unreservedl% binds" himself henceforth to act and behave carefull%as a $orth% member of the #hilippine Bar&

Ruling:

:he court ruled that respondent, Benjamin (& Grecia is R;.