Title: Phipps v. The Warden

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

no. 28366

 

 

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I s
EDWARD PHIPPS, fe 2

Petitioner, 2

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THE WARDEN, DEPUTY WARDEN, and HEAD OF SECURITY,
OAHU COMMUNITY CORRECTION CENTER, STATE OF HAWAI'I,
Respondents.

 

‘ORDER
(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy JJ.)

By letter to the Chief Justice prisoner Edward Phipps
(Petitioner) complains the warden, deputy warden, and head of

curity offices at the Oahu Community Correctional Center are

 

a petition for writ of

 

holding his mail. We view the letter
mandamus. Phipps has not shown “a clear and indisputable right
to the relief requested and a lack of other means to redress
adequately the alleged wrong or to obtain the requested action.”
Straub Clinic & Hospital v. Kochi, 61 Hawai'i 410, 424, 917 P.24
1284, 1288 (1996). ‘Therefore,

XT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk shall file
Petitioner's letter as a petition for a writ of mandamus, without
payment of the filing fee.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Rule 21 of the

Hawai'i Rules of Appellate Procedure, that the Petition is

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denied. This denial is without prejudice to any other action by

which Petitioner might seek a remedy.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai‘t, January 17, 2007.