State v. Bumanglag

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

These consolidated appeals involve interlocutory orders issued in four criminal cases where the defendants have been charged with promoting pornography in violation of HRS § 712-1214(1)(a). 1 The questions raised by defendants-appellants are whether motion picture films that are primary evidence of the putative offenses were improperly seized and therefore are excludable at trial and whether HRS § 712-1216(1) 2 which makes the dissemination of pornographic material prima facie evidence of the disseminator’s knowledge of the character and content of such…