Case Title: State v. Lagafaatasi

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2005-05-31T00:00:00Z

Document:
LAW LIBRARY

No. 27156

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Plaintiff-Appellee

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APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
(FO-CR. NO. 04-1-1592)

ORDER
Levinson, Nakayama, and

(By: Moon, C.J.
J., Concurring Separately)

Duffy, JJ.7 With Acoba,
upon review of the counterstatement of jurisdiction

 

filed by Plaintifg-Appellee State of Hawai'i and the records and

files herein, it appears that: (1) Defendant-Appellant is

appealing from the, January 31, 2005 order setting aside the ore
order of November 3, 2004 dismissing the case, judicial
determination of unfitness to proceed, suspension of proceedings
and order of conmitment to the custody of the director of the

Department of Health; (2) the right to appeal in a criminal case

is purely statutory and exists only when given by some

constitutional or statutory provision, State v. Oshize, 69 Haw.
(3) Appellant cites HRS § 641-11 and

438, 746 P.2d 568 (1987);

HRS § 571-54 as the statutory grounds for appeal; (4) HRS §

641-11 allows an appeal from a judgment of a circuit court, but
the order being appealed in the instant case is not a circuit

court judgment, see State v, Johnson, 63 Haw. 9, 619 P.2d 1076
(2980) (unless an appeal taken pursuant to HRS § 641-11 is froma
final judgment or sentence, an appeal must be dismissed by the
appellate court for lack of jurisdiction); (5) the order being
appealed is not appealable pursuant to HRS § 571-54, which
governs appeals in family court cases; and (6) inasmuch as the
order being appealed is not an appealable order pursuant to HRS
§ 641-11 of HRS § 571-54, this court lacks jurisdiction.
Therefore,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed for
lack of appellate jurisdiction.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai's, May. 31, 2005.

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