State v. Eleneki

Opinion of the Court by

ACOBA, J.

We hold that the police stop of Defendant-Appellant Jasmine Eleneki (Eleneki) was unlawful under Article I, Section 71 of the Hawai'i State Constitution, and therefore everything seized thereafter from her vehicle should have been suppressed. State v. Bonds, 59 Haw. 130, 138, 577 P.2d 781, 787 (1978) (stating where “[t]he stop of the vehicle constituted an unreasonable seizure!,] ... the evidence so obtained was inadmissible”). Because such evidence was illegally seized, we vacate the April 18, 2002 judgment of conviction of the circuit court of the second…