Hawaii Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<H2> <center> State of Hawaii v. John Doe </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with terroristic threatening after he allegedly brandished the butt of a firearm at a 33-year-old woman and identified himself as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent. “If someone finds themselves in a similar situation, the safest response is to call 911 right away,” Lee said. “Try to remember key details ... More...
$ (11-28-2025 - HI)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Marion Anthony Rogers </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking.<br> <br> (a) Offenses.—<br> (1) Travel or conduct of offender.—<br> A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to kill, injure, harass,... More...
$0 (11-18-2025 - HI)<H2> <center> George Hunter v. Bell Textron, Inc. </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, personal injury lawyers represent the Plaintiff who sued on a product liability theory.... More...
$0 (11-18-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brandon Inada </center> </h2>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of materials containing child porno.<br> <br> 18 U.S.C. 2252 provides in part:<br> <br> (a) Any person who—<br> (1) knowingly transports or ships using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means including by computer or mails... More...
$0 (10-29-2025 - HI)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Robert Morris </h1></center></h1>
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Shooting Federal Officer During Execution of Search Warrant and Sixteen-Hour Armed Standoff.<br> <br> Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Robert Morris, 49, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint yesterday with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous w... More...
$0 (10-23-2025 - HI)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Robert Morris </h1></center></h1>
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with <br> <br> Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Robert Morris, 49, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint yesterday with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm and am... More...
$0 (10-23-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Goss, aka Loran Gross </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r manufacture and<br> possession with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants, in violation of 21<br> U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B); two counts of felon in possession of a firearm,<br> in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, ... More...
$0 (10-19-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> Warren Yoshimoto, et al. v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.; Alaska Air Group, Inc. </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued to stop the merger of Alaska Air and Hawaii Airlines. <br> <br> Plaintiffs, a group including airline passengers and former travel agents, seek to enjoin Alaska Airlines’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. The district court dismissed Plaintiffs’ complaint without leave to amend for lack of standing,<br> and it ... More...
$0 (10-19-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawai'i v. John Naki </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony abuse of a family member.<br> <br> The State of Hawaii claimed that defendant's two prior abuse of family or household member<br> (Abuse) offenses, charged in a single complaint resulting in a single judgment of conviction, constituted one prior conviction rather than the two prior convictions required for felo... More...
$0 (10-17-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> The State of Hawai'i v. Craig Stephen MacDonald </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony.<br> <br> "The basic elements of procedural due process are notice and an opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and<br> in a meaningful manner." Mauna Kea Anaina Hou v. Bd. of Land & Nat. Res., 136 Hawai‘i 376, 389, 363 P.3d 224, 237 (2015)... More...
$0 (10-19-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Haitem Taylor Abid </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud by wire, radio or television in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, which provides:<br> <br> Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transm... More...
$0 (10-19-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Ryan Holden Baxter </h2> </center>
Honlulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making interstate threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which provides:<br> <br> (c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five y... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawaii v. Jane Doe </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree attempted murder.<br> <br> Honolulu police arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing a 13-year-old girl at Beretania Community Park.... More...
$0 (10-09-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Kinoshita </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. <br> <br> 21:841A=CD.F CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(l)(A)<br> (1)... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - HI)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Dwayne Yuen </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Oahu Basketball Coach Sentenced to 405 Month in Prison for Child Exploitation and Harassment Offenses Involving Ten Charged Victims</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b... More...
$0 (08-15-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jillian Pecika, aka Mango </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> Donna Darlene Berry v. Social Security Administration </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits.... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - HI)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Justin Shanlyn A. S. Park </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Fentanyl Pills </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Waikiki Drug Dealer Who Distributed Fentanyl Pills Linked to U.S. Marine’s Death Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"><... More...
$0 (08-01-2025 - HI)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Patrick Nowicke </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Armed Felon Indicted Aft... More...
$0 (07-31-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> Helene Kaiwi v. Community Clinic of Maui, Inc. </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a class action theory.<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (07-29-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Eugene Raymond Hall </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.... More...
$0 (07-29-2025 - HI)<h2> <centter> United States of America v. Marcel Tamaititahio </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to import drugs.... More...
$0 (07-29-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> Chunming Wang v. Estela Derr, et al. </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii immigration law lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas to release INS detainee.... More...
$0 (07-29-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawaii v. John Lee Franks </h2> </center>
Hilo, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually assaulting a minor.<br> <br> John Lee Franks, 47, was arrested over two years ago and charged in relation to incidents that occurred between November 2021 and February 2022. ... More...
$0 (05-30-2025 - HI)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Brian Matsudo, Marshall Scott, Raheem Wells </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Scheme to Defraud Department of Veterans Affairs of Over $9.1M </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Three Individuals Charged in Scheme to Defraud Department of Veterans Affairs of Over $9.1M</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br>... More...
$0 (05-02-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> D.R. v. T.R. </h2> </center>
Hilo, Hawaii family law husband and wife with out layers in a divorce action.<br> <br> D.R. filed for divorce from T.R. on October 27, 2022. A divorce decree was entered on December 13, 2022. According to the transcript of a June 1, 2023 hearing, D.R. filed a number of post-decree motions: "request for modification, motion to seal, motion to dismiss [T.R.J's motion, motion for post-decree relief,... More...
$0 (04-10-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawaii v. Gordon Cordeiro </h2> </center>
Maui, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Gordon Cordeiro, age 52, was convicted for a murder he did not commit and spent 30 years in prison before being exonerated an release when DNA evidence established that he was not the killer.<br> <br> Gordon Cordeiro, was convicted in October 1998 for the August 1994 murder of Timothy Blaisdell in an appa... More...
$0 (02-22-2025 - HI)</center><h1><center> United States of America v. Jonathan Farr </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Child Exploitation </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Honolulu Man Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for Child Exploitation of Multiple Minors</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Acting United States Attorney Kenneth M. Sorens... More...
$0 (02-19-2025 - HI)<h1><center> United States of America v. John B. Stancil </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Miske Enterprise Member Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Acting United States Attorney Kenneth M. Sorenso... More...
$0 (02-13-2025 - HI)<h1><center> United States of America v. Maliu Tauheluhelu </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking And Illegal Gambling Charges </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Oahu Man Sentenced to Over 16 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking And Illegal Gambling Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Maliu... More...
$0 (01-24-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawaii v. Joshua Masuda-Mercado </h2> </center>
Hilo, Hawai'i criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault of a minor under the age of 14.<br> <br> A jury found 45-year-old Joshua Masuda-Mercado of Kailua-Kona guilty of continuous sexual assault of a minor under the age of 14 and attempted sexual assault in the first degree on Wednesday in Kona Circuit Court, according to Prosecuting Attorney Kelden Waltjen. <b... More...
$0 (01-21-2025 - HI)<h1><center> United States of America v. Christopher A. Mazzei, Erin V. Mazzei, </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money launderingDefrauding Paycheck Protection Program </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> California Couple Sentenced for Defrauding Paycheck Protection Program</h2></center></b></b> ... More...
$0 (01-10-2025 - HI)<h1><center> United States of America v. Christopher A. Mazzei, Erin V. Mazzei </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> California Couple Sentenced for Defrauding Paycheck Protection Program</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Senior United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright sentenced Christopher A. M... More...
$0 (01-10-2025 - HI)<h2> <center> Juliana Alfieri v. United States Automobile Association </h2> </center>
Honolulu, Hawaii insurance lawyer represented represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of contract theory.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> PROCEDURAL LAW. DISMISSAL OF APPEAL. The case involves the dismissal of an appeal with prejudice based on a stipulation between the parties under Hawaii Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 42(a), where the parties agreed to bear their own attorneys' fees ... More...
$0 (01-06-2025 - HI)<h1><center> United States of America v. Blane Apostadiro </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy and Possessing and Discharging Firearm </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Oahu Man Indicted for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy and Possessing and Discharging Firearm</h... More...
$0 (12-19-2024 - HI)<h2> <center> Child Support Enforcement Agency, State of Hawaii v. I.S. </h2> <center>
<h2><br> Honolulu, Hawaii family law lawyer represented the Defendant on a child support question.<br> </h2><br> <br> Mother is a responsible parent[2] under Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) Chapter 576E. On August 5, 2021, she asked the Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) for a "modification of child support due to income change." The Office of Child Support Hearings (OCSH) held hearings on Janu... More...
$0 (11-13-2024 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawaii v. Alika K. Amasiu </h2> <center>
<h2><br> Wailuku, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a first-degree assault.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Amasiu was charged with Assault in the First Degree, which is a class B felony. HRS § 707-710 (2014). A prosecution<br> for a class B felony "must be commenced within three years after it is committed[.]" HRS § 701-108(2)(d). This "period of limitation does ... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - HI)<h2> <center> State of Hawaii v. Tyler Benjamin Nichols </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault agaist a law enforcement officer in the second-degree in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) 707-712.6 (20140.<br> </h2>... More...
$0 (11-07-2024 - HI)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Daniel Avendano-Silva and Yesica Villanueava-Martinez </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Honolulu, Hawaii immigration criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with being in the United States without authorization.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Petitioners came separately to the United States from Mexico as minors. Both entered without legal authorization and remain here illegally, having been in the United States for decades. They have three children born in the ... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - HI)<h2> <center> Denise Eiland v. Island Paradise Investments Limited Partnership </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Honolulu, Hawaii civil rights employment discrimination lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </2><br> Employment discrimination law prohibits employers from making employment decisions based on certain characteristics, including race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. This includes hiring, firing, promotions, pay, benefits, training, and othe... More...
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