STATE v. NOFOA

No. SCWC-12-0000984.

349 P.3d 327 (2015)

135 Hawai`i 220

STATE of Hawai`i, Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Toi NOFOA, Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

As Corrected April 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig W. Jerome and Susan L. Arnett , for petitioner.

Sonja P. McCullen , for respondent.

RECKTENWALD, C.J., NAKAYAMA, McKENNA, POLLACK, AND WILSON, JJ.


Three principal issues are presented in this appeal from Petitioner Toi Nofoa's convictions for kidnapping and terroristic threatening in the second degree: 1) whether the circuit court erred in instructing the prosecutor to inform the jury during closing arguments that the complaining witness was unavailable because...

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