HRS §660-16
When a judge can order someone brought to court
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If a judge has good proof that someone is held illegally and might be moved away or hurt before a habeas corpus order can be enforced, the judge can order a police officer to bring that person to court and keep them there until the order is issued and served.
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The statute, as written — Person held until writ issues, when
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Whenever it appears by satisfactory proof, by affidavit or otherwise, to any court or judge authorized by law to issue writs of habeas corpus, that anyone is illegally held in custody, confinement, or restraint and that there is good reason to believe that the person will be carried out of the jurisdiction of the court or judge or will suffer some irreparable injury before compliance with a writ of habeas corpus can be enforced, the court or judge may cause a warrant to be issued, reciting the facts and directed to the sheriff or the sheriff's deputy, or the chief of police of the city and county of Honolulu or the chief's deputies, or to any police officer in any other county, commanding such officer to take such person thus held in custody, confinement, or restraint and forthwith bring the person before the court or judge, and hold the person there until a writ of habeas corpus can be duly issued and served, after which the party alleged to be illegally restrained, shall be deemed to be before the court designated to hear the return in obedience to the writ.
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