State v. Corpuz

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

BURNS, C.J.

Defendant Joselito Corpuz (Corpuz) appeals the circuit court’s April 27, 1992 judgment, after a jury trial, finding him guilty of Terroristic Threatening in the First Degree (TT1), Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 707-716(l)(d) (1985). The court sentenced Corpuz to five years’incarceration. We affirm.

I

The circuit court unlawfully used the “struck jury” method to impanel the jury. State v. Shiroma, 9 Haw. App. 578, 855 P.2d 34, cert. denied, 74 Haw. 652, 857 P.2d 600 (1993). Corpuz, however, did not object to the method used to impanel the jury. Corpuz…