State v. Miyasaki

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

This case reaches us on an interlocutory appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit denying defendant-appellant’s motion to dismiss an indictment charging a violation of HRS § 710-1072.5, Obstruction of Justice. The indictment arose from his refusal to cooperate in a grand jury investigation of illicit gambling on the island of Hawaii. The issue presented is the constitutionality of a section of the state’s general witness immunity statute that provides immunity in exchange for potentially incriminating information from a witness. More…