Title: Connor v. Frank

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

no. 29056

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T

DE MONT R. D. CONNER, Petitioner,

vs. ™

 

CLAYTON FRANK, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT

OF PUBLIC SAFETY, STATE OF HAWAI'I, ‘mnt

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

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

Vd 91 ww

a3

an

 

upon consideration of the petition for a writ of
mandamus filed by petitioner De Mont Conner and the papers in
support, it appears that HRS § 353-16.2 (Supp. 2007) authorized
the respondent director of public safety to transfer petitioner
to an out-of-state correctional institution. The transfer was
not prohibited by HRAP 23(a) inasmuch as (1) HRAP 23 applies to a
habeas corpus proceeding initiated in the supreme court pursuant
to HRS § 660-3 (1993) and (2) petitioner’s proceeding in
appellate court No. 26240 is an appeal to the intermediate court
of appeals, filed pursuant to HRS $§ 641-1(a) and 641-11 (Supp.
2007), of a habeas corpus proceeding initiated in the circuit
court pursuant to HRPP Rule 40, Therefore, petitioner is not
entitled to mandamus relief. See In Re Disciplinary Bd. of
fiawaii Supreme Court, 91 Hawai'i 363, 984 P.2d 688 (1999)
(Yandanus relief is available to compel an official to perform a
duty allegedly owed to an individual only if the individual's

claim is clear and certain, the official's duty is ministerial
and so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt, and no other
remedy is available.). Accordingly,

'T IS HEREBY ORDE!

 

that the clerk of the appellate

 

court shall renove the petition for a writ of mandamus from
appellate court No. 28240 and process it as an original
proceeding without payment of the filing fee.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the petition for a writ of
mandanus is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 14, 2008.

 

eects COT echo lLse™

(DNS

(ene onag, 8.