State v. Ketchum

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

The plaintiff-appellant State of Hawaii [hereinafter, the “prosecution”] appeals from the findings of fact (FOFs), conclusions of law (COLs), and order of the first circuit court, the Honorable Russell Blair presiding, granting the defendant-appellee Burt T. Ket-chum’s motion to suppress. On appeal, the prosecution asserts that the circuit court erred in suppressing Ketchum’s responses, on three separate occasions, to Honolulu Police Department (HPD) officers’ questions regarding his residential address; in each instance, he indicated that his address was…