Chung v. Ogata

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LEVINSON, J.

This case is here on a petition for a writ of prohibition filed by Barry Chung, prosecuting attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, pursuant to authority conferred under HRS §§ 659-16 and 659-17. Respondents are Judge Thomas S. Ogata, presiding judge of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit, and Pontiano Rapanal and Henry Kane, defendants under indictment for murder in the first degree now awaiting trial before Judge Ogata. Petitioner seeks a writ prohibiting respondents from enforcing an order entered by Judge Ogata on October 10, 1972 in…