Case Title: Mathison v. Hawaii Paroling Authority.

Citation: 

Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

Document:
No, 30117

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

 

KENNETH WAYNE MATHISON, Petitioner, 3
HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY, Respondent. =
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING J 3

(By: Moon, C.J. Nakayama, AGoEa Duffy, and Recktenwald, 33.)
Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of
mandamus filed by petitioner Kenneth Wayne Mathison and the
papers in aupport, it appears that providing inmates with

discovery of minimum term fixing materials is discretionary under

 

the Hawaii Paroling Authority’s administrative rules and is not
mandated by HRPP Rule 16. See HAR § 23-700-22(g) ("An inmate may
be afforded the opportunity, subject to security considerations,

to consider and review materials the [Hawaii Paroling] Authority

 

has that pertain to the fixing of the inmate’s minimun term.”
HRPP Rule 1 ("[The HRPP] rules shall govern the procedure [in all
penal proceedings] in the courts of the State(.]"). Therefore,
petitioner is not entitled to mandamus relief. See HRS § 602-
5(3) (Supp. 2008) (The suprene court has jurisdiction and power
to issue writs of mandamus directed to public officers to compel

them to fulfill the duties of their offices.); In Re Disciplinary
Bd. Of Hawaii Supreme Court, 91 Hawai'i 363, 368, 984 P.2d 688,

693 (1999) (Mandamus relief is available to compel an official to
perform a duty allegedly owed to an individual only if the

individual's claim is clear and certain, the official's duty is

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ministerial and so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt,
and no other renedy is available.); Salling v. Moon, 76 Hawai'i
273, 274 n. 3, 874 P.2d 1098, 1099 n.3 (1994) (“A duty és
ministerial where the law prescribes and defines the duty to be
performed with such precision and certainty as to leave nothing
to the exercise of discretion and judgment.”). Accordingly,

I? 1S HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of
mandamus is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 30, 2009.

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