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STATE v. PINERO

No. 12990.

778 P.2d 704 (1989)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Clyde PINERO, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

July 25, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Pollack, Public Defender (Seth T. Thompson, Deputy Public Defender, with him on the brief), Honolulu, for defendant-appellant.

Alexa D.M. Fujise, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

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

NAKAMURA, Justice.

Clyde Pinero was convicted of murder in the first degree and of unlawfully possessing a firearm after a jury trial in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit. He urges on appeal that the convictions must be set aside because the trial court committed a host of errors that denied him a fair trial. We conclude from a review of the record that the court committed prejudicial error when it (1) permitted testimony about a previous encounter between the...

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