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STATE v. BROWN

No. 12925.

776 P.2d 1182 (1989)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bernadine L. BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

June 19, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan S. Ikehara (Anson O. Rego, A Law Corp., of counsel), 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.

NAKAMURA, Justice.

Bernadine L. Brown was charged with criminal contempt of court because she failed to appear in the District Court of the First Circuit for trial on a charge of promoting a detrimental drug.1 She was convicted of contempt after a bench trial conducted by the judge whose order she was accused of disobeying, and she appeals. Concluding from a review of the record that the conviction cannot be upheld because the State did...

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