STATE v. BATES

No. 12860.

771 P.2d 509 (1989)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sonja Pua BATES, Defendant-Appellant, and Robert Albert Perry and Robert Milton Williamson, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

March 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clayton C. Ikei, Honolulu, for defendant-appellant.

G. Cher Foerster, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUM, C.J., and NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ.


LUM, Chief Justice.

Appellant Sonja Pua Bates appeals her conviction for Burglary in the Second Degree in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 708-811, alleging several grounds of trial court error. First, Appellant contends that the admission into evidence of the preliminary hearing testimony of an absent State witness violated her sixth amendment right of confrontation because the State failed to make a good faith effort to locate the witness before...

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