State v. Ui.

The right to have all elements of a charged criminal offense proven beyond a reasonable doubt is one of the fundamental principles of our justice system. In State v. Murray , we held that a trial court must engage a defendant in an on-the-record colloquy to ensure that the defendant is intelligently, knowingly, and voluntarily relinquishing this fundamental right before the court may accept the defendant's admission of an element of a crime. 116 Hawai'i 3 , 12, 169 P.3d 955 , 964 (2007). We now reiterate our holding in Murray and decline to establish an exception to the colloquy requirement…