NO. 26912



IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI`I



STATE OF HAWAI`I, Plaintiff-Appellee-Respondent,


vs.


SOLOMON K. TAMPON, aka SOLOMON K. KALUA, aka SOLOMON K. KALANI,
Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.
(Cr. No. 00-1-0179(2))

STATE OF HAWAI`I, Plaintiff-Appellee-Respondent,


vs.


SOLOMON K. TAMPON, aka SOLOMON KAIHUE KALUA KALANI,
Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.
(Cr. No. 00-1-0587(2))


CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
(Cr. Nos. 00-1-0179(2) and 00-1-0587(2))





ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)

The defendant-appellant-petitioner Solomon K. Kalua's August 16, 2007 motion for reconsideration is denied. See Hawai`i Revised Statutes § 602-59(c) (Supp. 2006) ("An application for writ of certiorari [(AWC)] may be filed with the supreme court no later than ninety days after the filing of the judgment . . . of the intermediate appellate court [(ICA)].") (emphasis added); Hawai`i Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 40.1 (2006) ("(a) . . . No later than 90 days after filing of the [ICA's] judgment on appeal . . . , any party may apply . . . for a writ of certiorari. . . . (h) . . . Neither acceptance nor rejection of an [AWC] shall be subject to a motion for

reconsideration . . . . The rejection of an [AWC] shall be final.") (emphasis added).

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai`i, August 24, 2007.





Richard D. Gronna,
    attorney for the defendant-
    appellant-petitioner
    Solomon K. Kalua, on the
    motion