State v. Tailo

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, C.J.

Defendant-Appellant Peni Tailo, Jr. (Appellant) appeals from his conviction for driving a motor vehicle in excess of the legal speed limit in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 291C-102. The State’s evidence consisted of the testimony of a single police officer who relied upon a reading from a K-15 radar speed detection device (K-15 gun) which clocked the speed of Appellant’s vehicle at seventy miles per hour in a fifty-five mile per hour zone. The issue on appeal is whether the State must prove the accuracy of a tuning fork used in verifying the…