Legal Opinion
State v. Higa
Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals
Decided January 31, 2012No. 30546Published
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
FUJISE, J.
DefendanU-Appellant Matthew Higa (Higa) appeals from the May 5, 2010 judgment of conviction and sentence, entered in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (circuit court), 1 convicting him of second-degree murder, in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 707-701.5 (1993).
Higa was found guilty in a bench trial of throwing 23-month-old Cyrus Belt (the child) to his death on the HI Freeway from the Miller Street overpass on January 17, 2008. Higa was undisputedly on methamphetamine and amphetamine at the time of the crime. Higa was found competent to…
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