Hawaii Supreme Court· 11/28/2000

State v. Lewis

Citations

12 P.3d 1233
94 Haw. 292

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concluding that the prior-to-trial advisement recommended in Tachibana should thereafter be mandated
requiring a pretrial advisement regarding the right to testify and the right not to testify
describing the comprehensive colloquy - designed to protect the right to testify and the right not to testify - that happens before the start of trial and at the end of trial
\[W]e hold the court need not engage in a Tachibana colloquy except where the defendant has indicated that he or she will not testify[.]\
“there is nothing to indicate here that Petitioner’s decision to testify was anything other than voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently made”
pretrial advisement “will have the beneficial effect of limiting any post-conviction claim that a defendant testified in ignorance of his or her right not to testify”

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Judges: Moon, Levinson, Nakayama, Ramil, Acoba

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