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STATE v. BATSON

No. 13762.

788 P.2d 841 (1990)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William BATSON, aka Amos Cruse II, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

March 15, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Pollack, Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender, Honolulu (Michael P. Healy, Deputy Public Defender, with him on the briefs), for defendant-appellant.

Charlotte J. Duarte, Deputy Pros. Atty., Office of the Pros. Atty., Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUM, C.J., PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ., and NAKAMURA, Retired Justice, assigned by reason of vacancy.

PADGETT, Justice.

This is an appeal by defendant-appellant William Batson, aka Amos Cruse II (appellant), from a First Circuit jury conviction for murder in the second degree (Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §§ 707-701.5(1) and 706-656(2)).

Appellant contends that he was deprived of equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii...

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