State v. Nichols

Opinion of the Court by

BURNS, C.J.

Defendant-Appellant Tracy Nichols (Nichols) appeals from the September 7, 2004 Judgment of the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit1 convicting him as charged of Terror-istic Threatening in the First Degree, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 707-716(l)(c) (1993)2, and sentencing him to probation for five years. Some of the conditions of his probation are (a) imprisonment for thirty days, (b) payment of a $100 crime victim compensation fee, and (c) payment of a $150 probation services fee.

On appeal, Nichols contends that plain error occurred when the trial court…