CSC v Lucas ISSUE: WN administrative proceedings are exempt from basic
and fundamental procedural principles, such as the right to due process in Raquel Linatok, an assistant investigations information officer at the and hearings. Department of Agriculture, filed with the Office of the Secretary of RULING: No. We sustain the ruling of the Court of Appeals that: (a) a basic the DA an affidavit-complaint requirement of due process is that a person must be duly informed of the against Jose Lucas, a charges against him and that (b) a person can not be convicted of a crime photographer of the same agency with which he was not charged. Administrative proceedings are not exempt for misconduct. The complaint from basic and fundamental procedural principles, such as the right to due stemmed from the alleged act of process in investigations and proceedings. The right to substantive and Jose Lucas of touching and procedural due process is applicable in administrative proceedings. caressing complainant's thigh running down to her ankle. After a formal investigation by the Board of Personnel Inquiry, it issued a resolution finding respondent guilty of simple misconduct and recommending a penalty of suspension for one month and one day. The CSC, however, found him guilty of grave misconduct and imposed on him the penalty of dismissal from the service. The CA set aside the CSC resolution and reinstated that of the board and ruled that respondent was denied due process as he came to know of the modification of the charge against him only when he received notice of the CSC resolution dismissing him from the service. In its petition to the SC, petitioner contended that a formal charges in an administrative case need not be drafted with the precision of an information in a criminal prosecution.