Case Title: Bonty v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2005-08-30T00:00:00Z

Document:
No. 27205
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT‘I:

     

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NATHANIEL BONTY, Petitioner-Appellant & 2

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent-Appellee

 

 

 

APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
(8.B.P. NO. 04-1-0002; CR. NO. 58523)

(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nal

 

ama, Roba, and Duffy, JJ.)
Upon consideration of Respondent-Appellee State of
Hawaii's motion to dismiss Petitioner-Appellant Nathanial £.
Bonty’s appeal as untimely, the papers in support and opposition,
and the records and files herein, it appears that: (1) the
circuit court's February 1, 2005 order denying Petitioner-
Appellant's petition for post conviction relief was appealable by
notice of appeal filed within thirty days after the order was
entered. See HRPP Rule 40(h); HRAP Rule 4(b) (1); (2) Petitioner-
Appellant signed the notice of appeal on March 20, 2005 and filed
the notice of appeal on March 31, 2005; (3) the notice of appeal
was filed more than thirty days after the order being appealed;
(4) Petitioner-appellant’s contention that his notice of appeal
vas late because his legal service provider, EXPRESS LEGAL
SERVICES, failed to timely prepare the document for filing does
not excuse the late filings and (5) due to the untimely filing of

the notice of appeal, we lack jurisdiction. See Grattafior

 

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State, 79 Hawai'i 10, 13, 897 P.2d 937, 940 (1996) (compliance
with the requirements of the timely filing of a notice of appeal
is jurisdictional, and we must dismiss an appeal if we lack
jurisdiction). Therefore,

IT TS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion to dismiss is
Granted, and this appeal is disnissed for lack of jurisdiction.

TT TS FURTHER ORDERED that the supreme court clerk's
office shall forward a copy of this order and Petitioner-
Appellant’ s response in opposition to Respondent-Appellee state
of Hawaii's motion to dismiss appeal to the Attorney General for
review and investigation, if warranted, of the possible
unauthorized practice of law by persons affiliated with EXPRESS
LEGAL SERVICES, 1088 Bishop Street, Suite 903, Honolulu, Hawas‘t
96813, and 1750 Kalakaua Ave., Suite 103-3624, Honolulu, Hawai'i,
96820.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, August 30, 2005.

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

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Nathaniel Bonty,

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