16. Based on the results of the judicial audit of the cases assigned to Judge X, it was discovered that he had 44 pending cases which he failed resolve within the prescribed three-month period. It was confirmed that he did not request from the Supreme Court any additional time to act on these cases. The oldest of these cases had been pending with his court for 13 years already. In his defense, he claimed that he was sickly and was in and out of the hospital. It was for this reason that he was unable to promptly resolve his cases. Is Judge X guilty of gross inefficiency? Reason(s).