State v. Rice

This is an appeal from a conviction of prostitution. A single point is raised on appeal. Appellant pled guilty to the charge of prostitution and her attorney made an oral motion for a deferred acceptance of guilty plea under § 853-1, HRS. The trial court held that under § 712-1200(4), he could not grant such a plea. Subsection 4 was added by Act 110 of the Session Laws of 1981. It provides:

Keith M. Kiuchi, Deputy Public Defender, on the briefs, for appellant. Arthur E. Ross, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, and John M. Conte, law student intern, on the brief, for appellee.

Notwithstanding any…