State v. Ibuos

OPINION OF THE COURT

BY KLEIN, J.

After a bench trial, defendant-appellant Boyflorence Ibuos (Ibuos) was convicted of the offense of Abuse of a Family and Household Member in violation of Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 709-906 (1985 and Supp. 1991). Ibuos’s timely appeal asserts that the District Family Court of the Second Circuit improperly accepted his counsel’s waiver of his right to a jury trial at the arraignment and plea hearing. The subsequent bench trial and conviction stemming from such an invalid waiver, Ibuos argues, violates his sixth amendment right to trial byjuiy. In addition,…