State v. Lo

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

The State of Hawaii (the State) gathered evidence incriminating Dr. Pershing S. Lo (the defendant) by installing electronic viewing, amplifying, and recording devices in a hotel room to which he had been lured by a patient feigning, under the direction of law enforcement officers with whom she was cooperating, an urgent need for his medical attention. The Circuit Court of the First Circuit suppressed the evidence to remedy what it concluded was a constitutional violation, and the State appeals. It asserts there was no invasion of defendant’s constitutional…