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	AM No. MTJ-03-1480 2003-09-10	TRINIDAD CABAHUG v. JUDGE JASPER JESSE G. DACANAY SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.
In Prosecutor Robert M. Visbal vs. Judge Marino S. Buban,[8] we held that failure to decide cases and other matters within the reglementary period constitutes gross inefficiency and warrants the imposition of administrative sanction against the erring magistrate.[9] Delay in resolving motions and incidents pending before a judge within the reglementary period of ninety (90) days fixed by the Constitution and the law is not excusable and constitutes gross inefficiency.[10] Further, such delay constitutes a violation of Rule 3.05, Canon 3 of the Code of Judicial Conduct which mandates that a judge should dispose of the court's business promptly and decide cases within the required periods.[11] As a trial judge, respondent is a frontline official of the judiciary and should at all times act with efficiency and with probity.[12]