Hugo Gutierrez, Jr.

Hugo Espiritu Gutierrez Jr. (January 29, 1927 – June 12, 2013) was a Filipino jurist and civil liberties advocate. Gutierrez served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from May 14, 1982, until March 31, 1993, when he resigned because of plagiarism that dealt with a decision in a Supreme Court case between Eastern Telecommunications Philippines and PLDT. The resulting scandal led to Gutierrez's resignation days later. However, he was subsequently exonerated of wrongdoing by a committee of the Supreme Court, which instead held Emil Jurado, a Manila Standard columnist who also wrote about the issue, in contempt of court.

Later life and death In his later years, Gutierrez served as a lecturer at the Philippine Judicial Academy and became chair of its Constitutional Law Department in the 2000s.

Gutierrez died from complications related to diabetes on June 12, 2013, at the age of 86. He was laid in state at the Sanctuarium on Araneta Avenue in Quezon City before being buried in Pampanga.