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STATE v. GOERS

No. 6820.

600 P.2d 1142 (1979)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Merrill Paul GOERS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

October 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joanne M. Lanham, Deputy Public Defender, Honolulu (Larry C.Y. Lee and Lloyd Van De Car, Deputy Public Defenders, Honolulu, on the briefs), for defendant-appellant.

Michael Akana, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu (Lydia Garcia, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu, on the brief), City and County of Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., OGATA and MENOR, JJ., and MARUMOTO and KOBAYASHI, Retired Justices, assigned by reason of vacancies.

RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

Defendant-appellant Merrill Paul Goers was convicted on three separate counts of burglary in the first degree and one count of attempted burglary. He raises several issues on appeal. The only issues which merit our serious consideration are whether the trial court committed reversible error in (1) failing to determine the voluntariness of a confession before it was admitted into evidence, and (2) concluding at a post-conviction voluntariness...

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