Case Title: State v. Balcher

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State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2006-02-09T00:00:00Z

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STATE OF HAWAI'I, Plaintiff-Appellee

CHARLES IRA BALCHER, Defendant-Appellant

 

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIRST crRCUIT
(CASE No. CoNAS of 3/5/08)
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upon review of the record, it appears that the district
court's Hay 5, 2005 judgment vas appeslable by notice of appeat
tiled within thirty days after the judgment vas flied. See RAP
4()(1). The district court, the Honorable Leslie Hayashi
presiding, extended the time for appeal unt él August §, 2008, but
the tine for appeal could have been extended only until July 5,
2008, Sag WRAP 4(b) (5) ("{TIne disteict court may . . « extend

the time for filing a notice of appeal for @ period not to exceed

 

30 days fron the expiration of [the original 30-day deadiine}.
The notice of appeal filed on August 4, 2005 was untimely. Our
recognized exceptions to the requirement that notices of appeal
be timely filed do not apply in this case. Thus, we lack
Jurisdiction, See Grattafiori v, state, 79 Hawai'i 10, 13, 697
P.24 937, 940 (1995) ("[Clomplience with the requirement of the
timely filing of a notice of appeal is jurisdictional, and we

must dismiss an appeal on our own motion if we lack

 

 

considered by: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, Jo.
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jurisdiction.”), Therefore,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this appeal is dismissed for
lack of appellate jurisdiction.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 9, 2006.
FOR THE COURT:

Pecate, C1 cutesy

Associate Justice