Case Title: State v. Town

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2006-03-28T00:00:00Z

Document:
LAW LIBRARY

No. 27730

 

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Petitioner,
MICHAEL A, TOWN, Judge, Wineteenth Division, Circuit court of the

First Circuit, State of Hawai'i, and RODNEY JOSEPH, JR., AND
KEVIN GONSALVES, Respondents.

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ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

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TBy: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba,
and Circuit Judge Ibarra, in place of Duffy, J., recused)

vpon consideration of Petitioner State of Hawai'i’s
petition fora writ directed to s judge, the papers in support,
and the records and files herein, it appears that: (1) Petitioner
petitions this court to direct the respondent judge to vacate his
order granting Defendants Rodney Joseph, Jr. and Kevin Gonsalves
bail in State v, Joseph, Cr. No. 04-21-0077, presently pending in
the Circuit Court of the First Circuits and (2) Petitioner fails
to demonstrate the respondent judge abused his discretion when he
granted the motions for bail and set bail at $1 million for each
defendant. Therefore,

17 IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ

directed to a judge is denied.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 28, 2006.

Lucianne Hhalef, Gon
Geputy prosecuting attorney, Laik aro

fer petitioner, on the
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