Title: Tierney v. District Court of the Fifth Circuit

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

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MICHAEL C. TIERNEY, Petitioner, 2 6
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DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, Respondent.
ORIGINAL, PROCEEDING
0504068K, COSO40E8K)

(CASE NOS. 00504068K, A0504068K,

JI, and

(By: Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy,
in place

Intermediate Court of Appeals Judge Watanabe,
of Intermediate Court of Appeals Judge Nakamura,

previously assigned in place of Moon, C.J., recused)
upon consideration of petitioner Michael Tierney’s
“petition for writ of habeas corpus,” which is deemed a petition
for writ of mandamus and the papers in support, it appears that
the district court correctly instructed petitioner to seek relief
through petitioner's counsel of record and petitioner makes no

assertion that his counsel of record has refused or ignored
Therefore, petitioner is not

See Kema_v. Gaddis, 91 Hawai'i

(A weit of mandamus is

petitioner’s request for relief.

entitled to a writ of mandamus.

200, 204-205, 982 P.2d 334, 338-339 (1999)

an extraordinary remedy that will not issue unless the petitioner
demonstrates a clear and indisputable right to relief and a lack
of alternative means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or

obtain the requested action.). Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of

mandamus is denied. The denial is without prejudice to seeking

relief from the district court through counsel of record.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 20, 2007.

Michael C. Tierney, pro se
on the petition