State v. Lewis

Opinion of the Court by

ACOBA, J.

We affirm the result reached by a majority of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (the ICA), 94 Hawai'i 309,12 P.3d 1250, affirming the September 14, 1999 judgment of probation filed by the family court of the second circuit (the court), against Petitioner-Appellant Sky Lewis (Petitioner). However, we granted Petitioner’s application for writ of certiorari to clarify the applicability of the colloquy requirement detailed in footnote 7 of Tachibana v. State, 79 Hawai'i 226, 900 P.2d 1293 (1995), and the suggested prior-to-start-of-trial advisement highlighted in…