De La Garza v. State.

Opinion of the Court by

POLLACK, J.

Petitioner Cheyne De La Garza (Petitioner) seeks review of the Intermediate Court of Appeals’ (ICA) August 23, 2012 judgment, affirming the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit’s (circuit court) July 28, 2011 order dismissing Petitioner’s Hawai'i Rules of Penal Procedure (HRPP) Rule 40 petition for post-conviction relief.

Petitioner asserts that the ICA gravely erred in affirming the circuit court’s order because the manner in which the Hawai'i Paroling Authority (HPA) “amended” his minimum term of imprisonment from eighteen months to five years was in…