STATE v. LESTER

No. 7313.

649 P.2d 346 (1982)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donald LESTER and Kenneth A. Gaut, Defendants-Appellants, and James Vincent Mori, Elizabeth Y. Tuttle, Kenneth E. Anderson, Patrick J. Hildebrand, Ronnie G. Wilson and Patrick L. Hamlow, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

June 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert H.K. Lau, Honolulu (Marie Milks and Larry A. Goya, Deputy Public Defenders, Honolulu, on the opening brief), for defendant-appellant Kenneth A. Gaut.

Stephen P. Pingree and Leslie S. Fukumoto, Honolulu, for defendant-appellant Donald Lester.

Peter B. Carlisle, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ., and OGATA and MENOR, Retired Justices, Assigned Temporarily.


LUM, Justice.

This case involves the criminal trial and convictions of defendants-appellants Kenneth A. Gaut and Donald Lester. They were indicted along with others1 for having committed the crime of the murder of Michelle Lester (by a hired killer)2 under § 707-7013 and § 706-606(a)(iii),4 Hawaii...

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