State v. Kaiama

RAMIL, Justice.

Following a jury trial in the Second Circuit Court, the defendant-appellant Roy Kaiama, Jr., was found guilty of Murder in the Second Degree, in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 707-701.5 (1993), 1 and sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. Kaiama filed a timely appeal from his judgment, conviction and sentence. On appeal, he alleges that the trial court erred in: (1) allowing the plaintiff-appellee State of Hawaii (the prosecution) to use co-defendant Reginald Medei-ros as a “physical exhibit” to show that Me-deiros was…