Case Title: Conner v. Crandall

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2009-04-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
No. 29751

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

 

   

DE MONT R. D. CONNER, Petitioner, — / .

 

THE HONORABLE VIRGINIA L. CRANDRLL, JUDGE, OF TH. CERCUIRY
COURT OF THE FIRS? CIRCUIT, STATE OF HAWAI'E
CLAYTON FRANK, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT: OF

PUBLIC SAFETY, Respondents. »

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ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(SPP NO, 06-1-0021 (Cr. Nos. 59460, 60121, 84-0553, @5-0110))

‘ORDER

(By: Moon, C.J.» Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ. and

Intermediate Court of Appeals Chief Judge Reckterwald,

assigned by reason of vacancy)
upon consideration of the petition for a writ of

mandanus filed by petitioner De Mont R. D. Conner, the papers in
support, and the record of SPP No, 06-1-0021, it appears that SPP
No, 06-1-0021 is scheduled for an evidentiary hearing before the
respondent judge on June 22, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. The June 22, 2009
hearing date was set by the respondent judge and counsels for the
parties at the February 23, 2009 status conference. Petitioner
was represented at the status conference by private counsel
Jeffrey Arakaki, who was appointed as petitioner's counsel
pursuant to HRPP 40(i), which obliged the respondent judge to
appoint counsel to represent petitioner at the evidentiary
hearing. Petitioner can discuss the evidentiary hearing with
counsel Arakaki, who can move the respondent judge for orders
regarding scheduling, transportation, and transcripts.
Therefore, petitioner is not entitled to mandamus relief. See

Kena v, Gaddis, 91 Hawai'i 200, 204, 982 P.2d 334, 338 (1999) (a
writ of mandamus is an extraordinary remedy that will not issue
unless the petitioner demonstrates a clear and indisputable right

te relief and a lack of alterna’

 

@ means to redress adequately
the alleged wrong or cbtain the requested action.). Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of
mandamus is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 22, 2009.

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