State v. Delos Santos

Opinion of the Court by

NAKAYAMA, J.

On April 1, 2010, this court accepted a timely application for a writ of certiorari filed by petitioner-plaintiff-appellee, the State of Hawai'i (“the prosecution”), on February 18, 2010, requesting that this court review the *132Intermediate Court of Appeals’ (“ICA”) November 24, 2009 judgment on appeal, entered pursuant to its November 9, 2009 Memorandum Opinion reversing the Family Court of the First Circuit’s (“family court”) August 6, 2008, Judgment of Conviction and Sentence.1 Oral argument was held on June 3, 2010.

In its application for writ of certiorari…