State v. Furuyama

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

Procedures employed in the enforcement of HRS § 712-1214, promoting pornography, 1 are at issue in these eleven appeals by the State of Hawaii from orders of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit dismissing the charges against defendants-appellees (hereafter defendants) in four of the cases on grounds that the warrantless arrests of the defendants were without probable cause and suppressing evidence, including allegedly pornographic publications, in the other cases on grounds that the seizures breached constitutional guarantees against unreasonable searches…