State v. Kupau

How courts have described this case

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

• “The end result [of assault in the third degree] is bodily injury, while harassment has no such result.”
• injury resulting from harassment is different from, and therefore not less serious than injury received from assault in the third degree, because “[ajlthough harassment requires a physical touching, [the statute] is concerned with the offensive nature of the touching to one’s sensibilities”
• “the structure of the Hawai'i Penal Code places the offenses of harassment and assault in the third degree in separate categories,” with the former placed in the chapter of “Offenses Against Public Order” and the latter placed in the chapter of “Offenses Against Persons”
• “the structure of the Hawai#i Penal Code places the offenses of harassment and assault in the third degree in separate categories,” with the former placed in the chapter of “Offenses Against Public Order” and the latter placed in the chapter of “Offenses Against Persons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).