Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2014-06-03 22:01:18.795252+00
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                                                      Supreme Court
                                                      SCPW-13-0005657
                                                      03-JUN-2014
                                                      10:18 AM

                        SCPW-13-0005657

          IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

                   JOHN DeCAMBRA, Petitioner,

                               vs.

            DIRECTOR TED SAKAI, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

              SAFETY, STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent.

                       ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

        ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

  (By: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, McKenna, and Pollack, JJ.,

   and Circuit Judge Ochiai, in place of Acoba, J., recused.)

          Upon consideration of petitioner John DeCambra’s “Writ

of Habeas Corpus”, filed on November 25, 2013, which we review as

a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the respondent Director

of the Department of Public Safety’s answer to the petition for a

writ of habeas corpus, filed on March 27, 2014, the respective

supporting documents submitted thereto, and the record, it

appears that respondent’s actions do not amount to a deliberate

indifference to petitioner’s medical need.    Petitioner,

therefore, is not entitled to the requested habeas corpus relief. 

See Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104-05 (1976) (to establish a

constitutional claim under the Eighth Amendment predicated upon

the failure to provide medical treatment, an inmate must show 

(1) a “serious medical need” by demonstrating that failure to

treat the condition could result in further significant injury or

the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain, and (2) the prison

official’s response to the medical need was deliberately

indifferent to the prisoner’s medical need); Farmer v. Brennan,

511 U.S. 825, 847 (1994) (deliberate indifference exists when a

prison official knows an inmate faces a substantial risk of

serious harm to his health and fails to take reasonable measures

to abate the risk); Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1131 (9th Cir.

2000) (deliberate indifference is shown by a purposeful act or

failure to respond to a prisoner’s pain or possible medical need,

and harm caused by the indifference).   Therefore,

          IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of

habeas corpus is denied.

          DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, June 3, 2014

                              /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

                              /s/ Paula A. Nakayama

                              /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

                              /s/ Richard W. Pollack

                              /s/ Dean E. Ochiai

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