Case Title: Swift v. Perkins

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2009-06-12T00:00:00Z

Document:
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIIE = = S
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BENJAMIN CORTEZ SWIFT, Petitioner,
‘THE HONORABLE RICHARD K. PERKINS, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT

coUaT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT, STATE OF HAWAI'I and
STATE OF HANAT'T, Respondents.

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(SEP No. 7-1-0026)

ORDER
Moon, C.J., Nakayama, Acoba, Duffy, and Recktenwald, JJ.)

 

Upon consideration of the papers submitted by Benjamin
Cortez Swift, which is deemed a petition for a writ of mandamus,
At appears that petitioner fails to demonstrate a clear and
indisputable right to relief. See Kema v. Gaddis, 91 Hawai'i
200, 204, 982 P.2d 334, 338 (1999) (A writ of mandamus is an
that will not issue unless the petitioner
and indisputable right to relief and a lack
of alternative means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or
obtain the requested action.). Therefore,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the clerk of the appellate
court shall process the petition for a writ of mandamus without

payment of the filing fee.
I IS FURTHER ORDERED that the petition for a writ of

extraordinary remedy
demonstrates a clear

mandamus is denied.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawai‘i, June 12, 2009.

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