State v. Kawashima

Summary

The Supreme Court of Hawaiʻi denied the State’s petition for an extraordinary writ challenging the exclusion of Manuel Thomas as a trial witness. The court concluded that the State had not shown a flagrant and manifest abuse of discretion or extraordinary circumstances warranting relief, where the State failed to provide required witness-availability information and timely serve a subpoena.

Holdings

1. The State failed to establish a flagrant and manifest abuse of discretion constituting extraordinary circumstances; therefore, the petition for an extraordinary writ was denied.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the trial court's exclusion of Manuel Thomas as a State trial witness constituted a flagrant and manifest abuse of discretion warranting an extraordinary writ.

Disposition

writ_denied