Kaohu, Jr. v. State

• Court: Hawaii Supreme Court
• Decided: October 18, 2024
• Docket: SCPW-24-0000506
• Status: Published

Opinion

Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCPW-XX-XXXXXXX 18-OCT-2024 03:26 PM Dkt. 14 ODDP

SCPW-XX-XXXXXXX

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI ________________________________________________________________

THEODORE KAWIKA KAOHU, JR., Petitioner,

vs.

STATE OF HAWAIʻI, Respondent. ________________________________________________________________

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING (1CPN-XX-XXXXXXX; CASE NO. 1PC111001756) ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS (By: Recktenwald, C.J., McKenna, Ginoza, and Devens, JJ., and Circuit Judge Kubota, in place of Eddins, J., recused)

Upon consideration of the petition for writ of habeas

corpus filed on July 30, 2024, and the record, it appears that

Petitioner sought the same relief in 1CPN-XX-XXXXXXX.

Petitioner did not appeal from the circuit court’s December 6,

2022 order that denied the Hawaiʻi Rules of Penal Procedure Rule

40 petition in 1CPN-XX-XXXXXXX. A petition for writ of habeas

corpus filed in this court is not intended to be used in lieu of

normal appellate procedures. See Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes § 660-

3 (2016); Oili v. Chang, 57 Haw. 411, 412, 557 P.2d 787, 788

(1976). Petitioner has not presented a special reason for this

1 court to invoke its original jurisdiction in a habeas corpus

proceeding. See Oili, 57 Haw. at 412, 557 P.2d at 788.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, October 18, 2024.

/s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

/s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

/s/ Lisa M. Ginoza

/s/ Vladimir P. Devens

/s/ Peter K. Kubota