Legal Opinion
State v. Kelekolio
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided April 23, 1993No. 15798PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY
LEVINSON, J.
The defendant-appellant John Anthony Kelekolio (Kelekolio) appeals his November 15,1991 convictions of sexual assault in the second degree and kidnapping. Kelekolio raises a number of substantial points of error on appeal, 1 but only one is outcome dispositive. Because the trial court committed plain error in failing to conduct a competency hearing regarding the complaining witness, and because we are not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the error was harmless, we vacate Kelekolio’s judgment of conviction and remand for a new trial.
I. BACKGROUND
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