State v. Kanamu

Opinion of the Court by

LIM, J.

David M. Kanamu (Defendant or Appellant) appeals the August 5, 2003 judgment of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit 1 that convicted him — upon a jury’s verdict and as charged — of promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. Defendant was sentenced to concurrent, five-year indeterminate terms of imprisonment, with his prison term for promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree subject to a mitigated mandatory minimum term of one year, as a one-strike repeat offender under Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 706-606.5…