Legal Opinion

State v. Griffin

Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Decided November 22, 2011No. 29981Published

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court by

FUJISE, J.

Defendants Appellant Darnell Griffin (Griffin) appeals from his conviction and sentence for the offense of Murder in the Second Degree entered by the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (circuit court).1 Griffin challenges the conduct of grand jury counsel leading to his indictment, the exclusion of prior sexual conduct evidence and admission of certain pre-trial statements made by him, and the sufficiency of the evidence presented at trial. We affirm.

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Evelyn Luka (decedent) was fifteen years old when she began dating Kevin Luka (Kevin), who was twenty-one at…

2Cases cited39 opinions

  1. United States v. CalandraSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. State v. RichieHawaii Supreme Court · 1998
  3. United States v. Herman ChanenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
  4. Briones v. StateHawaii Supreme Court · 1993
  5. State v. EastmanHawaii Supreme Court · 1996

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