State v. Stoa

Opinion of the Court by

WATANABE, Presiding J.

This appeal concerns the admissibility of the readings from a laser device used to measure the speed of a motor vehicle.

Defendant-Appellant Cheryl L. Stoa (Stoa) contends that the District Court of the First Circuit (the district court) 1 erred in finding her “guilty” of Noneomplianee with Speed Limit Prohibited, in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 291C-102 (Supp. 2003), 2 because the district court’s judgment was based solely on evidence obtained from a laser speed-measuring device and no foundational evidence of the universal…