State v. Dudoit

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

The defendant-appellant Mervin Dudoit, Jr. appeals solely with regard to his sentence in connection with his conviction of two counts of abuse of a family or household member, in violation of Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 709-906 (Supp.1997).1 On ap*264peal, Dudoit argues that the family court erred in sentencing him to a mandatory thirty-day jail term for the second count of the complaint, pursuant to the “repeat offender” provision of HRS § 709-906(5)(b), see supra note 1, because (1) the legislative history of HRS § 709-906(5) establishes that the…