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Upon consideration of application for a writ of certiorari filed July 31, 2000 by the plaintiff-appellant-petitioner State of Hawaii, the same is hereby granted.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2, 2000.
FOR THE COURT:
STEVEN H. LEVINSON
Associate Justice
Tracy Murakami, Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney, for the
plaintiff-appellant-petitioner
State of Hawaii
on the writ
1. Considered by: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Ramil, and Acoba, JJ.