State v. Dannenberg

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• “In construing a statute, legislative history may be considered when a statute is ambiguous or of doubtful meaning.”
• the language “notwithstanding any law to the contrary” in the prostitution statute “clearly [limited] the discretion of the trial court in sentencing prostitution offenses and to provide a mandatory sentencing structure unlike that for other petty misdemeanors.”
• “HRS § 853-l(b) permits the court to impose any conditions on ... DAG pleas enumerated in HRS § 706-624, the statute permitting the court to attach certain conditions to sentences of probation or the suspension of a sentence.”
• reaffirming this court’s holding in Rice, infra

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