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STATE v. KAPOI

No. 7304.

637 P.2d 1105 (1981)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert KAPOI, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

December 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Tam, Deputy Pros. Atty., Wailuku (James B. Takayesu, Deputy Pros. Atty., Wailuku, on opening brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Melvyn T. Yoshii, Wailuku (Mason, Yoshii & Scott, Wailuku, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and OGATA, MENOR, LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ.

NAKAMURA, Justice.

The legality of a warrantless seizure of a handgun from an automobile parked on a public street is at issue in this appeal by the State of Hawaii from an order of the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit suppressing the weapon as evidence in the prosecution of Defendant-appellee Robert Kapoi for an alleged violation of HRS § 134-7, felon in possession of a firearm. As a review of the circumstances...

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