James Kealohapauole v. Edwin Shimoda and the Attorney General, State of Hawaii

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that whether or not the admission of evidence is contrary to a state rule of evidence, a trial court’s ruling does not violate due process unless the admitted evidence is “of such quality as necessarily prevents a fair trial”
• finding no denial of due process from admission of a videotape of autopsy procedure
• videotape of victim’s autopsy, although unpleasant, not inflammatory and thus did not inject element of unfairness
• admission of videotape of victim’s autopsy was relevant to cause of death and did not deny defendant due process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).