State v. Okubo

*198OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, C.J.

We granted writ of certiorari to review the appeal of Roy Okubo and George Yamamoto from the decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) reversing the circuit court’s suppression of taped conversations which were to be used as evidence against them on charges of bribing two police officers. We affirm the ICA’s decision.

Okubo and Yamamoto were indicted in January of 1981 for bribing two policemen in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 710-1040(l)(a). Evidence against them was obtained through the warrantless taping and transmission of…