State v. Kealoha

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

BURNS, C.J.

Defendant Samuel L. Kealoha, Jr. (Kealoha) appeals the district court’s April 24, 1991 judgment finding him guilty of the unauthorized overnight parking of his pickup truck at the Molokai airport on April 22, 1990 and sentencing him to pay a $25 fine. We affirm.

Kealoha contends that the district court reversibly erred when it (1) expressly concluded that his Hawai‘i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 703-302 (1985) “choice of evils” defense applied to crimes but not violations and (2) failed to conclude that Kealoha’s justification (“choice of evils”) defense raised a…