Legal Opinion
State v. Merino
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided April 11, 1996No. 15995PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVINSON, Justice.
The defendant-appellant William Merino appeals the March 12,1992 judgment of the first circuit court convicting him, following the entry of a plea of no contest, 1 of criminal conspiracy in violation of Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 705-520 (1993). In substance, Merino raises two points of error on appeal, namely, that the circuit court: (1) erred in allowing him to plead no contest in the first place because (a) the complaint charging him with criminal conspiracy was fatally defective, giving rise to plain error, because it “fail[ed] to sufficiently allege the elements…
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