Case Name: STATE OF HAWAII, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EDWARD Y. IREBARIA, Defendant-Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii
Jurisdiction: Hawaii
Decision Date: 1975-06-02
Citations: 56 Haw. 332
Docket Number: NO. 5726
Parties: STATE OF HAWAII, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EDWARD Y. IREBARIA, Defendant-Appellant
Judges: RICHARDSON, C.J., KOBAYASHI, OGATA, MENOR, JJ., and SHINTAKU, Circuit Judge, Assigned by Reason of Vacancy
Reporter: Hawaii Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 332–333

Head Matter:
STATE OF HAWAII, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EDWARD Y. IREBARIA, Defendant-Appellant
NO. 5726
JUNE 2, 1975
RICHARDSON, C.J., KOBAYASHI, OGATA, MENOR, JJ., and SHINTAKU, Circuit Judge, Assigned by Reason of Vacancy

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In State v. Kamae, 56 Haw. 32, 36, 526 P.2d 1200, 1203 (1974), we quoted, inter alia, the following with approval from Coppedge v. United States, 369 U.S. 438, 448 (1962):
"It is the burden of the Government, in opposing an attempted criminal appeal in forma pauperis, to show that the appeal is lacking in merit, indeed, that it is so lacking in merit that the court would dismiss the case on motion of the Government, had the case been docketed and a record been filed by an appellant able to afford the expense of complying with those requirements."
We hold- that the issues sought to be reviewed by defendant-appellant (hereinafter appellant) under his proposed appeal from the order denying reduction of sentence cannot be considered so lacking in merit that we would dismiss the appeal on the basis of frivolity if this appeal had been taken by a non indigent appellant. State v. Kamae, supra, State v. Hayashida, 55 Haw. 453, 522 P.2d 184 (1974); State v. Pence, 53 Haw. 157, 488 P.2d 1177 (1971); In re Carvelo, 44 Haw. 31, 352 P.2d 616 (1959).
Accordingly, we reverse the order of the trial court dated August 1, 1974, filed in the records of the First Circuit Court in Criminal No. 42147, denying the application for leave to appeal in forma pauperis. That order is vacated and the appellant is granted leave to appeal informa pauperis from the order denying reduction of sentence entered in such records on June 28, 1974.
David W. Hall (Hart, Leavitt & Hall of counsel) for defendant-appellant.
George K. K. Kaeo, Jr., Deputy Prosecuting Attorney (Charlotte E. Libman, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.
Reversed.