Case Title: Gomes v. State

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State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2000-06-28T00:00:00Z

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NO. 22774 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I RONALD GOMES, Petitioner-Appellant, vs. STATE OF HAWAI#I, Respondent-Appellee. _______________________________ ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) S.P.P. NO. 99-0008(2) SECOND CIRCUIT COURT SUMMARY DISPOSITION ORDER Upon carefully reviewing the record and the briefs submitted by the parties and having given due consideration to the arguments advanced and the issues raised by the parties, we hold that the circuit court did not err in denying Ronald Gomes’s (Gomes) Hawai#i Rules of Penal Procedure (HRPP) Rule 35 motion to correct or reduce his sentence issued July 20, 1999 inasmuch as: (1) the circuit court did not err in allowing Gomes to be convicted of both sexual assault in the first degree in violation of HRS § 707-730 and manslaughter in violation of HRS § 707-702; and (2) the circuit court did not err in imposing extended terms of imprisonment pursuant to HRS § 706-662(4). Therefore, -2- IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the judgment from which the appeal is taken is affirmed. DATED: Honolulu, Hawai#i, June 28, 2000. On the briefs: Ronald Gomes, petitioner- appellant pro se Richard K. Minatoya, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, for respondent-appellee _______________________________ RONALD T. Y. MOON Chief Justice _______________________________ STEVEN H. LEVINSON Associate Justice _______________________________ PAULA A. NAKAYAMA Associate Justice _______________________________ MARIO R. RAMIL Associate Justice _______________________________ SIMEON R. ACOBA, JR. Associate Justice