State v. Moses

Opinion of the Court by

DUFFY, J.

Petitioner-plaintiff-appellee State of Hawaii [hereinafter, “the prosecution”] applied for a writ of certiorari to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals’ (ICA’s) published opinion in State v. Moses, No. 23038, 103 Hawai'i 111, 80 P.3d 1, 2002 WL 31375697 (Haw.App. Oct. 22, 2002), in which the ICA vacated the circuit court’s judgment and remanded for a new trial. The ICA concluded that, during Moses’s trial on nine counts, the circuit court abused its discretion in admitting into evidence a toxicology report showing that Moses had ingested cocaine. The ICA…