Report Title:

Post Conviction Proceedings; Procedure

Description:

Establishes time limits for filing habeas corpus complaints and limits successive complaints.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3204
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING to POST CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 660, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§660-  Time limits. A five-year period of limitation shall apply to a complaint filed under this chapter.  The limitation period shall run from the last of:

(1) The date on which the judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review;

(2) The date on which the impediment was removed that prevented filing a complaint created by a governmental action in violation of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii or the Constitution of the United States;

(3) The date on which a newly created constitutional rule under the Constitution of the State of Hawaii or the Constitution of the United States was initially recognized and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review by the supreme court of the State of Hawaii or the Supreme Court of the United States; or

(4) The date on which the factual predicate of the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence; and the newly discovered evidence, if proven and viewed in light of the evidence as a whole, would be sufficient to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have found the petitioner guilty of the offense.

§660- Successive petitions. A claim presented in a second or successive complaint filed under this chapter that was not presented in a prior complaint shall be dismissed unless:

(1) The petitioner shows that the claim relies on a previously unavailable new rule of constitutional law under the Constitution of the State of Hawaii or the Constitution of the United States, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the supreme court of the State of Hawaii or the Supreme Court of the United States; or

(2) The factual basis for the claim could not have been discovered previously through the exercise of due diligence, and the facts underlying the claim, if proven and viewed in light of the evidence as a whole, would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing evidence that, but for the constitutional error, no reasonable fact finder would have found the applicant guilty of the underlying offense."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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