State v. Ah Choy

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• holding that conduct for robbery and attempted murder was separate and distinct and not unitary under facts of case
• holding that, pursuant to HRS § 701—109(1)(e), the circuit court plainly erred in failing to instruct the jury that the defendant could be convicted only of attempted murder if committed,concurrently with first degree robbery
• construing felony murder as an aggravated form of armed robbery, and reasoning that the legislature could not have intended cumulative punishment when the mandatory punishment for murder is life imprisonment
• intent to kill inferred from the nature and location of a wound and the weapon used

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