Title: Gagarin v. State

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

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No. 26727
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T

EDWARD GAGARIN, Petitioner-Appellant

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STATE OF HAWAT'I, Respondent-Appellee

 

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APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
(S.P.P. NO. 0-1-0010)
(By: Nakayama, J., for the court)
Upon review of the record, it appears that the circuit

court's June 22, 2004 order denying appellant’ s HRPP Rule 40
petition for post-conviction relief was appealable by notice of
appeal filed with the circuit court within thirty days after the
order was entered. See HRPP 40(h); MRAP 4(b) (1). Appellant's
notice of appeal was filed with the circuit court on July 27,
2004, thirty-four days after entry of the June 22, 2004 order and
was untimely. There is no evidence in the record that the notice
of appeal was tendered to prison officials for forwarding to the
court clerk on or before the thirty-day appeal deadline. our
recognized exceptions to the requirement that notices of appeal
be timely filed do not apply in this case. Thus, we lack
jurisdiction. See Grattatior v. State, 79 Hawai'i 10, 13, 897
P.2d 937, 940 (1995) ("(C)ompliance with the requirement of the

timely filing of a notice of appeal is jurisdictional, and we

 

 

‘considered by: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Hal

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must dismiss an appeal on our own motion'if we lack

jurisdiction."). Therefore,

 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this appeal is dismissed for
lack of appellate jurisdiction.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 13, 2008.

FOR THE COUR!

 

Beceese Co unter

Associate Justice