Title: Williams v. Department of Public Safety, State of Hawaii

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

LAW LIBRARY

no. 29405

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T

 

OAVID V. MELLIANE, oR., Petitioner, pj gp
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, z =
STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent - 2G

   

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

RDER a
(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nekayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)

Upon consideration of David V. Williams, Jr.'s
motion for immediate release from imprisonment, which is deemed a
petition for a writ of habeas corpus, it appears that habeas
corpus relief is available to petitioner in the circuit court and
petitioner presents no special reason for invoking the supreme
court’s original jurisdiction. See Qili v. Chang, 57 Haw. 511,
512, 557 P.2d 787, 788 (1976). Therefore,

If IS HEREBY ORDERED that the clerk of the appellate
court shall file the petition for a writ of habeas corpus without
payment of the filing fee.

IT 1S FURTHER ORDERED that the petition for a writ of
habeas corpus is denied without prejudice to seeking habeas
corpus relief in the circuit court.

IT IS FINALLY ORDERED that petitioner's motion for
appointment of appellate counsel is dismissed without prejudice
iling the motion with the intermediate court of appeals in
No. 29343,

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 15, 2008.

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