Legal Opinion
State v. Kearns
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided February 9, 1994No. 15451; CR. NO. 89-1374PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*560OPINION OF THE COURT BY
KLEIN, J.
Michael Kearns was charged with one count of Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the First Degree in violation of Hawai‘i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 712-1241(1)(a)(i) (Supp. 1992) and one count of Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the Second Degree in violation of HRS § 712-1242(1)(b)(i) (Supp. 1992). The circuit court denied Kearns’s pre-trial motion to suppress evidence and, in a subsequent jury-waived trial, found him guilty as charged. The Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) affirmed the denial of the motion to suppress and the subsequent convictions in a published…
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