State v. Tachibana

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, C.J.

Defendant-Appellant Ray Koichi Tachibana pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment not subj'ect to parole. He now contends the trial court erred in accepting his guilty plea, in refusing to allow him to withdraw the plea, and in denying him the possibility of parole. We conclude that the trial court did not err in accepting the guilty plea or in refusing to allow its withdrawal, but that the court abused its discretion when imposing sentence.

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Appellant and another man, Melvin Levi, were indicted in October 1981 for the 1969…