Case Title: Pinkerton v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2006-03-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
No. 27280

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

 

STATE OF HAWAT'I, Respondent-Appellee

APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
(SPP NO. 04-1-0053; CR. NO. 95-2123)

 

ORDER
(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)

Upon consideration of Respondent-Appellee State of
Hawaii's motion to dismiss the appeal of Petitioner-Appellant
Bruce A. Pinkerton on the ground that the appeal is moot; the
papers in support, and the recorde and files herein, it appears
that: (1) Appellant is appealing from the order denying a
petition for post conviction relief without @ hearings (2) in the
underlying petition for post conviction relief and on appeal,
Appellant contends the Hawai'i Paroling Authority abused its
discretion by revoking paroles thus, Appellant argues he is
entitled to release from incarceration and return to parole
status; (3) as of January 2, 2006, Appellant served his entire
term of imprisonment and was released from incarceration? (4)
Anasmuch as Appellant served his entire term of imprisonment and
was released from incarceration, the court can grant no effective

remedy to Appellant; and (5) the appeal is moot. See AIG Hawai'i

Ins. Co., Inc, v, Bateman, 62 Hawai'i 453, 458-459, 923 P.24 395,

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400-401 (1996) (the mootness doctrine is properly invoked where
events have so affected the relations between the parties that
the two conditions for justiciability relevant on appeal -
adverse interest and effective remedy - have been compromised:
the duty of the suprene court as of every judicial tribunal is to
decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried
into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions which
cannot affect the matter in iseue in the case before it).
Therefore,

17 IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion to dismiss ss
granted, and this appeal is dismissed.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 22, 2006.

Lisa M. Itomura,
Deputy Attorney General,
for respondent-appellee

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