State v. Valdivia

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

The defendant-appellant Jose Luis Valdi-via appeals from the judgment of the first circuit court, the Honorable Virginia Lee Crandall presiding, convicting him of and sentencing him for the offenses, inter alia, of kidnapping, in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 707-720(1)(d) (1993), 1 and terroristic threatening in the first degree, in violation of HRS § 707-716(l)(c) (1993). 2 On appeal, Valdivia asserts that (1) the evidence adduced by the prosecution was insufficient to support his convictions of the offenses of kidnapping and first degree…