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State v. Deleon

Citations

  • 813 P.2d 1382
  • 72 Haw. 241

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  • involving fourteen-year-old complainant who was hit with a folded belt six to ten times
  • involving fourteen-year-old complainant who was hit with a folded belt six to ten times
  • “ ‘[Fjamily or household member’ means spouses or former spouses, parents, children, and persons jointly residing or formerly residing in the same dwelling unit.”
  • in order to define the term “extreme pain,” contained in an earlier incarnation of the defense that referred to “death, serious bodily injury, disfigurement, extreme pain or mental distress, or gross degradation[,]” HRS § 703-309(l)(b) (1985
  • “There is a rule of construction embodying the words noscitur a sociis which may be freely translated as ‘words of a feather flock together,’ that is, the meaning of a word is to be judged by the company it keeps.”
  • extreme pain analogous to extreme mental distress

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Judges: Lum, C.J., and Padgett, Hayashi, Wakatsuki and Moon

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