State v. Mattson

Opinion of the Court by

MOON, C.J.

On October 14, 2009, this court accepted a timely application for a writ of certiorari, filed on September 9, 2009, by petitioner/defendant-appellant Joseph Mattson, III, seeking review of the Intermediate Court of Appeals’ (ICA) June 12, 2009 judgment on appeal, entered pursuant to its May 21, 2009, summary disposition order (SDO). Therein, the ICA affirmed the Circuit Court of the First Circuit’s1 April 22, 2008 judgment, convicting Mattson of and sen*314tencing him for one count of terroristic threatening in the first degree, in violation of HRS •§§ 707-715…