State v. Perez

We issued a writ of certiorari to review the published decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) in State v. Perez, 90 Hawai'i 113, 976 P.2d 427 (App.1998) (hereinafter the “ICA’s decision”). In its application for cer-tiorari, the prosecution asserts that the ICA erroneously vacated Perez’s convictions of attempted second degree murder, in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §§ 705-500 (1993), 1 707-701.5(1993), 2 and 706-656 (1993) 3 (Count I), attempted assault in the first degree, in violation of HRS §§ 705-500 and 707-710 (1993) 4 (Count II), and two counts of reckless…