EDMUNDS v. WON BAE CHANG

No. 5423.

512 P.2d 3 (1973)

John S. EDMUNDS, Petitioner, v. Robert WON BAE CHANG, as Judge of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied August 13, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burnham H. Greeley (Padgett, Greeley, Marumoto & Steiner, Honolulu), for petitioner.

Robert P. Jaress, Deputy Atty. Gen. (George Pai, Atty. Gen., Honolulu, with him on the brief), for respondent.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and ABE, LEVINSON and KOBAYASHI, JJ., and HAWKINS, Circuit Judge, in place of MARUMOTO, J., disqualified.


ABE, Justice.

The petitioner, representing defendant Steven M. Hayashida as counsel in Criminal Case No. 44262 in the First Circuit Court, was found in contempt by Judge Robert Won Bae Chang, the presiding judge (herein respondent), and he petitioned this court for a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent from proceeding any further on the Order and Judgment of Contempt.

The excerpt of the transcription shows the proceeding before Judge Chang as follows...

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