Carter v. Honolulu Police Department
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Opinion
Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCWC-XX-XXXXXXX 15-JUL-2025 09:39 AM Dkt. 15 ODAC
SCWC-XX-XXXXXXX
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI _______________________________________________________________ SAMUEL CARTER, Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant,
vs.
HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT, CITY & COUNTY OF HONOLULU; CHIEF OF POLICE; WINSTON HALE; JUSTIN GONSALVES; JORDAN REGO; KENRIC PAI; and FLORAND BLANCO, Respondents/Defendants-Appellees. _______________________________________________________________ CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS (CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX; CASE NO. 1CCV-XX-XXXXXXX) ORDER REJECTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI (By: Recktenwald, C.J., McKenna, Eddins, and Ginoza, JJ., and Circuit Judge Ashford, in place of Devens, J., recused)
Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant Samuel Carter’s
(Carter) application for writ of certiorari, filed on June 12,
2025, and as supplemented on July 10, 2025, is hereby rejected.
To be clear, Carter has two appeals from the same
circuit court case, CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX and CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX, because
two notices of appeal were mailed to the Circuit Court of the
First Circuit. But each appeal is on a different procedural path because both appeals were not consolidated prior to
dismissal of CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX.
For example, Carter filed an opening brief and
jurisdiction statement in CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX. An opening brief and
jurisdiction statement were not filed in CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX.
This order and the dismissal of CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX does
not affect the outcome of CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX because CAAP-24-
0000540 and CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX were not consolidated prior to the
dismissal of CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX. CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX continued to be
pending in the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) when Carter’s
application for writ of certiorari was filed in this case.
Carter is directed to file documents in CAAP-24-
0000495 while that case continues to be pending in the ICA.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, July 15, 2025.
/s/ Mark E. Recktenwald
/s/ Sabrina S. McKenna
/s/ Todd W. Eddins
/s/ Lisa M. Ginoza
/s/ James H. Ashford
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