Legal Opinion
State v. Ramos
Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals
Decided April 3, 2000No. 22105PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
LIM, J.
Defendant-Appellant Saul N. Ramos (Ramos) was convicted after a jury trial of violating Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 712-1243, promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree, 1 and sentenced to a five-year indeterminate term of imprisonment with a mandatory minimum term of two-and-one-half years.
Ramos now appeals the first circuit court’s November 9, 1998 judgment, conviction and sentence, asserting that the trial court should have granted his pretrial motion to suppress evidence. We agree.
I. Background.
On Saturday, July 19, 1997, at 4:16 p.m., Officer…
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