Case Title: Waialae v. Graulty

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2005-06-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
No. 27245

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

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TOKEPA WAIALAE, Petitioner-Defendant

JUDGE REYNALDO D. GRAULTY, Family Circuit Court Judge
of the Family Court of the First Circuit, Respondent

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(EC-CR NO. 05-1-1016)

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(By: Moon, €.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)
upon consideration of Petitioner Iokepa Waialae’s

application for a writ of mandamus seeking modification of the

terms of release pending appeal, the papers in support, and the
(1) Petitioner is

 

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seeking review of a court order related to Petitioner's rel
pending appeal from a judgment of conviction; (2) a writ of
mandamus is an extraordinary renedy that will not issue unless
the petitioner demonstrates clear and indisputable right to
relief and a lack of alternative means to redress the alleged
wrong or obtain the requested action, State v. Hamili, @7 Hawai"
102, 104, 982 P.2d 390, 392 (1998); (3) such writs are not
intended to take the place of normal appellate procedures; and
(4) Petitioner has a pending appeal from the judgment of
conviction, and any request for relief must be filed in the

pending appeal pursuant to HRAP Rule 9(b). Therefore,

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IT 18 HEREBY ORDERED that the application for a writ of
mandamus 1s denied without prejudice to any remedy Petitioner may
have in his pending appeal.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, June 9, 2005.
Karen T. Nekasone,
Deputy Public Defender,

for petitioner-defendant
on the writ