State v. Sequeira

Opinion of the Court by

WATANABE, J.

In this appeal, we have been asked to determine whether Defendant-Appellant Michael J. Sequeira, also known as Mike J. Sequeira (Defendant), was illegally ordered, as part of his sentence for various drug and drug paraphernalia charges, to pay restitution to the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) for the amount of “drug buy” money its undercover police officers expended to purchase drugs from Defendant in order to obtain evidence of his criminal activity.

We conclude that Defendant was improperly sentenced to pay restitution to HPD. Accordingly, we vacate that…