State v. Soares

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, C.J.

Defendant-appellant Ronald Soares (Soares) and defendant-appellant Hollie Suratt (Suratt) were indicted separately but convicted in a consolidated trial and have filed separate appeals on their convictions of Robbery in the Second Degree, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 708-841(1 )(a) (Supp. 1990). Appellants argue that the trial court erred in submitting an accomplice instruction to the jury and further that the court’s accomplice instruction was erroneous. Appellants also claim that the cumulative effect of the prosecutor’s improper remarks deprived them of a…