State v. Bonnell

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LEVINSON, J.

The plaintiff-appellant State of Hawaii (State) appeals from orders of the District Court of the Second Circuit, Lahaina Division, granting the defendants-appellees Edwin Bonnell, Jr., Ruth Gonsalves (Gon-salves), Richard Grothman, Lincoln Maielua (Maielua), Frank Sylva, Jr. (Sylva), and Michael Tamashiro’s (collectively “the defendants”) motions to suppress evidence obtained as a result of warrantless covert video surveillance — spanning a year in duration and conducted by the Maui Police Department (MPD) — of the defendants’ “break room” located in their…