Court Opinion

ID: 4024708
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-08-15 21:29:27.44301+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:17:44.685920
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Electronically Filed
                                                      Supreme Court
                                                      SCWC-15-0000408
                                                      27-APR-2016
                                                      02:16 PM

                          SCWC-15-0000408

           IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I

                    GERALD MANULEI VILLANUEVA,
                 Petitioner/Petitioner-Appellant,

                                vs.

                         STATE OF HAWAI#I,
                  Respondent/Respondent-Appellee.

          CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
             (CAAP-15-0000408; S.P.P. NO. 14-1-003(2);
                        CR. NO. 96-0078(2))

        ORDER DISMISSING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
(By: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, McKenna, Pollack, and Wilson, JJ.)

           It appearing that the judgment on appeal in the above-

referenced matter not having been filed by the Intermediate Court

of Appeals at the time the application for writ of certiorari was

filed, see Hawai#i Revised Statutes § 602-59(a) (Supp. 2013); see

also Hawai#i Rules of Appellate Procedure (HRAP) Rule 36(b)(1)

(2012),

           IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Petitioner/Petitioner-

Appellant’s application for writ of certiorari, filed

April 21, 2016 is dismissed without prejudice to re-filing the
application pursuant to HRAP Rule 40.1(a) (2014).   (“The

application shall be filed within thirty days after the filing of

the intermediate court of appeals’ judgment on appeal or

dismissal order, unless the time for filing the application is

extended in accordance with this rule.”).

          DATED:   Honolulu, Hawai#i, April 27, 2016.

Gerald Manulei Villanueva,       /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald
petitioner pro se
                                 /s/ Paula A. Nakayama

                                 /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

                                 /s/ Richard W. Pollack

                                 /s/ Michael D. Wilson

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