State v. Lee

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

The defendant-appellant Edward Lee appeals from the family court’s order denying his motion to dismiss the complaint in which he was charged with one count of abuse of a family or household member, in violation of Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 709-906 (Supp.1998). 1 The family court had previously purported to “reconsider” a judgment of acquittal that it had entered after a trial resulted in a hung jury. On appeal, Lee argues that any further proceedings in his case following the filing of the family court’s judgment of acquittal would violate the…