Rule 33 - Procedures for Processing Post-conviction Prisoner Documents(a) Submission to office of clerk; docketing; SPP number. All written or typed post-conviction prisoner pleadings, correspondence, applications or requests mailed to, delivered to, or received by any court, judge, the public defender, the prosecuting attorney, or the chief clerk of the circuit court, shall be transmitted to the documents section of the circuit court for processing. All such prisoner documents shall be received as public documents and no such documents shall be considered or treated as "confidential," "private," "personal," etc. Each document received by the documents section shall be docketed and filed under an SPP (Special Proceeding - Prisoner) number and a separate file shall be established for each document, provided, however, that the court may direct that there be one SPP number for each prisoner so that all subsequent post-trial documents by the same prisoner shall be filed in the same SPP number. (b) Disposition. All documents processed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be governed by Rule 40 of the Hawai'i Rules of Penal Procedure. Amended April 18, 1994, effective 4/28/1994.