State v. Gomes

Opinion of the court by

LIM, J.

Ronald Gomes (Gomes, Appellant or Petitioner) appeals (S.C. No. 26466), pro se, the March 8, 2004 order of the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit1 that denied his “Petition to Correct Illegally Imposed Sentence and Conviction Pursuant to Hawaii Appellate [sic] Procedure Rule 35.”2 We affirm.

I. Background.

We first encountered this case more than a decade ago, in S.C. No. 16476:

*254We granted Ronald Gomes’s application for certiorari after the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) affirmed the order of the second circuit court denying Gomes’s Hawaii Rules of Penal…