Bryant v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HEEN, J.

The State of Hawaii (State) appeals the order of the circuit court granting Defendant Kenneth Lowell Dee Bryant’s (Defendant) Rule 40, Hawaii Rules of Penal Procedure (1984), 1 petition (Petition) for post-conviction relief in which the circuit court vacated Defendant’s conviction in criminal no. 52574 on five counts of attempted murder, Hawaii Revised Statutes §§ 705-500, 707-701 (1976), and ordered a new trial. We reverse.

I

After Defendant’s conviction in criminal no. 52574, his trial counsel appealed, 2 raising ten points of error. 3 The supreme court affirmed…