Transfiguracion v. Hawaii Paroling Authority

• Court: Hawaii Supreme Court
• Decided: April 17, 2014
• Docket: SCPW-14-0000743
• Status: Published

Opinion

Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCPW-14-0000743 17-APR-2014 02:24 PM

SCPW-14-0000743

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

FAUSTINO TRANSFIGURACION, Petitioner,

vs.

HAWAI'I PAROLING AUTHORITY, STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent.

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

(CR. NO. 09-1-00126K)

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

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

Circuit Judge Ayabe, assigned by reason of vacancy)

Upon consideration of petitioner Faustino

Transfiguracion’s letter dated March 25, 2014, which was filed as

a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on April 4, 2014, the

documents attached thereto and submitted in support thereof, and

the record, it appears that petitioner has alternative means to

seek relief and presents no special reason for this court to

invoke its jurisdiction at this time. See Oili v. Chang, 57 Haw.

411, 412, 557 P.2d 787, 788 (1976) (the supreme court “will not

exercise its original jurisdiction in habeas corpus proceedings

when relief is available in a lower court and no special reason

exists for invoking its jurisdiction”). Therefore,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the clerk of the appellate

court shall process the petition for a writ of habeas corpus

without payment of the filing fee.

IT IS HEREBY FURTHER ORDERED that the petition for a

writ of habeas corpus is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 17, 2014.

/s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

/s/ Paula A. Nakayama

/s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

/s/ Richard W. Pollack

/s/ Bert I. Ayabe