Hawaii Supreme Court· 11/16/2007

State v. Beltran

Citations

116 Haw. 146
172 P.3d 458
2007 Haw. LEXIS 341

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reasoning that “the term ‘reasonably appears’ is susceptible of subjective application among persons enforcing the regulation and those who must abide by it”
explaining that laws must be sufficiently clear to allow the public to distinguish between lawful and unlawful conduct
stating that a penal statute must \define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement'\
stating that a penal statute must “define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement’”
“Kolender, however, indicated that ‘[t]his concern has, at times, led us to invalidate a criminal statute on its face even when it could conceivably have had some valid application.’” (alteration in original

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Judges: Acoba, Duffy, Levinson, Moon, Nakayama

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