Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Freitas
Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals
Decided August 4, 2009No. 27747, 27856PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
NAKAMURA, J.
This case arises out of the investigation by the Kaua'i Police Department (KPD) of two murders and an attempted murder, each involving sexual assault and stabbing of a woman, that were committed in separate incidents in 2000 on Kaua'i. In 2002, Plaintiff-Appellant Waldorf Roy Wilson, II, (Wilson) sued the Kaua'i Police Chief, certain Kaua'i police officers, and the County of Kaua'i (County), claiming that they had engaged in misconduct while investigating him for these crimes. Wilson also sued the authors and publishers of articles appearing in the Honolulu…
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