State v. Melendez.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that if possessed drugs are neither usable nor saleable and attendant circumstances don't otherwise demonstrate defendant's violation caused harm statute criminalizing promoting a dangerous drug in the third decree seeks to prevent, de minimis dismissal is warranted
• an appellate court may affirm a judgment on any supporting ground in the record (quoting State v. Fukagawa, 100 Hawai#i 498, 506-07, 60 P.3d 899, 907-08 (2002))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sterling
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2020-12-23
• State v. John
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2020-12-28
• State v. Jose
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2023-06-13
• State v. Deguerra
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2023-06-16
• State v. U'u
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2025-04-04
• State v. Barrios
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2025-05-06

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Balanza
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2000-06-02· cited 78×
• State v. Vance
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1979-11-13· cited 68×
• State v. Park
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1974-07-31· cited 52×
• State v. Hironaka
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2002-09-06· cited 33×
• State v. Rapozo
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2010-07-29· cited 29×
• State v. Viernes
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1999-11-09· cited 26×
• State v. Fukagawa
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2002-12-30· cited 23×
• State v. Oughterson
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2002-09-16· cited 22×
• State v. Dow
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2001-09-05· cited 14×
• State v. Woodhall.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2013-05-31· cited 2×