Case Title: Webster v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: SCPW-21-0000070

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2021-03-30T00:00:00Z

Document:
SCPW-21-0000070 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I TARVAL WEBSTER, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF HAWAI#I, Respondent. ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (By: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, McKenna, and Wilson, JJ., and Circuit Judge Cataldo, in place of Eddins, J., recused) Upon consideration of petitioner Tarval Webster’s petition for writ of mandamus, filed on February 16, 2021, the documents attached thereto and submitted in support thereof, and the record, it appears that petitioner’s “Petition to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Judgment or to Release Petitioner from Custody,” which was mailed on October 1, 2020, was filed in the first circuit court on October 6, 2020, assigned case number 1CPN-21-0000005, and assigned to a circuit court judge. The petition remains pending in the circuit court and any relief related to the petition may be sought in the case as provided by law. Petitioner, therefore, is not entitled to the requested extraordinary writ. See Kema v. Gaddis, 91 Hawai#i 200, 204, 982 P.2d 334, 338 (1999) (a writ of mandamus is an extraordinary remedy that will not issue unless the petitioner demonstrates a Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCPW-21-0000070 30-MAR-2021 10:57 AM Dkt. 13 ODDP clear and indisputable right to relief and a lack of alternative means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or obtain the requested action). Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for writ of mandamus is denied. DATED: Honolulu, Hawai#i, March 30, 2021. /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald /s/ Paula A. Nakayama /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna /s/ Michael D. Wilson /s/ Lisa W. Cataldo 2 3