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Hawaii Supreme Court· 3/5/2008

State v. Mainaaupo

Citations

  • 178 P.3d 1
  • 117 Haw. 235

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that, “[h]owever weak [defendants’] testimony may have been,” the circuit court erred in declining to give defendants’ requested mistake of fact instructions
  • holding that the prosecutor’s argument in favor of an “unreasonable inference that [the defendant] was guilty in light of his post-arrest silence” “were not legitimate because[] [it] contravened the defendant’s] fundamental right to remain silent”
  • holding that the prosecutor's argument in favor of an \ unreasonable inference that [the defendant] was guilty in light of his post-arrest silence\ \were not legitimate because[ ] [it] contravened the defendant's] fundamental right to remain silent\
  • concluding that “the evidence . . . is not so overwhelming that we are convinced that the [deputy prosecuting attorney’]s intrusion into [the defendant’]s right to remain silent may not have contributed to his conviction”
  • defendant prosecuted for unauthorized control of a motor vehicle could assert that he mistakenly believed that the person who authorized his operation of the vehicle was the vehicle’s owner
  • “[W]e think that the evidence in this case is not so overwhelming that we are convinced that the DPA’s intrusion into [the defendant’s] right to remain silent may not have contributed to his conviction.”

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Judges: Moon, Levinson, Nakayama, Duffy, Acoba

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