Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-06-16 19:04:08.361713+00
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Electronically Filed
                                                      Supreme Court
                                                      SCPW-XX-XXXXXXX
                                                      22-MAY-2023
                                                      09:37 AM
                                                      Dkt. 16 ODDP

                         SCPW-XX-XXXXXXX
          IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI
________________________________________________________________

                ERNEST HORCAJO, III, Petitioner,

                               vs.

                THE HONORABLE HENRY T. NAKAMOTO,
        Judge of the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit,
               State of Hawaiʻi, Respondent Judge,

                               and

                  STATE OF HAWAIʻI, Respondent.
________________________________________________________________

                       ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                        (3CPN-XX-XXXXXXX)
         ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS
        (By: Recktenwald, C.J., McKenna, and Eddins, JJ.,
        Circuit Judge Castagnetti and Circuit Judge Souza,
                 assigned by reason of vacancies)

     Upon consideration of the petition for writ of mandamus

filed on April 5, 2023, the answers to the petition filed on May

8, 2023, and the record, Respondent Judge has provided the

relief sought in this original proceeding by acting on

Petitioner’s pending Hawaiʻi Rules of Penal Procedure Rule 40

proceeding.
It is ordered that the petition is dismissed as moot.

     DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, May 22, 2023

                         /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

                         /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

                         /s/ Todd W. Eddins

                         /s/ Jeannette H. Castagnetti

                         /s/ Kevin A.K. Souza

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