STATE v. BASHAM

No. SCWC-11-0000758.

319 P.3d 1105 (2014)

132 Haw. 97

STATE of Hawai`i, Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Michael W. BASHAM, Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant, and Aliikea Basham, aka Aliikea I. Basham, Petitioner/Defendant.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

As Corrected February 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Summer M.M. Kupau for petitioner.

ACOBA, McKENNA, and POLLACK, JJ., with NAKAYAMA, J., DISSENTING, with whom RECKTENWALD, C.J. joins.


Opinion of the Court by POLLACK, J.

Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant Michael W. Basham (Basham) appeals from the January 31, 2013 Judgment on Appeal of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA), affirming the June 14, 2011 Judgment of Conviction and Sentence entered by the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (circuit court). This appeal raises the issue of whether a prosecutor in closing argument may orally provide definitions to key terms in a critical jury instruction...

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