Hawaii Verdicts & Court Cases
425 verdicts, settlements, and court decisions from Hawaii.
United States of America v. Bernadette Acaso
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with voting illegally in violation of 18 U.S.C. 611, a misdemeanor. Digested by: Kent Morlan Bernadette Acaso, 19, a Filipino national residing in Honolulu, Oahu and Kahului, Maui, was born in the Philippines and came t
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Dylan Tai Dang
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl in violation of 21 U.S.C. 846. Reported by Kent Morlan Between April 2023 and April 2025, Dylan Tai Dang, 55, of Garden Grove, California, and his coconspirat
View VerdictState of Hawaii v. Ezra Miller
Hilo, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. Reported by: Kent Morlan Actor Ezra Miller, age 32, was arrested when he became disorderly in a bar.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Daylyn Harris
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Reported by: Kent Morlan Daylyn Harris, age 35, conspired to commit wire fraud in connection with false claims he submitted to the Federal Emergency Managemen
View VerdictState of Hawai'i v. Kade Smith
Hilo, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree negligent homicide, manslaughter and other crimes in connection with a fatal traffic collision. Reported by Kent Morlan Kade Smith, age 36, accused of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxica
View VerdictState of Hawai'i v. Dwight L. Harris
Maui, Hawai'i criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree assault and terroristic threatening in the second-degree. Threatening 2), in violation of HRS § 707-717(1). The charges stemmed from an incident in which Harris allegedly threw rocks at and thereby injur
View VerdictState of Hawai'i v. Keleionalani Taylor
Honolulu, Hawai'i family law lawyer represented the Defendant accused of four counts of Custodial Interference in the Second Degree.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Darren Patrick Riley
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant trafficking and sexual exploitation of five minor boys in Oahu in 2019 and 2020. Darren Patrick Riley, age 45, of Honolulu, used the app, Grindr, to meet the minors who ranged from 14 to 16 years old. After beginning the convers
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Ross Andrew Brown
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion or enticement of a female, selling or buying of children, sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography. Ross Andrew Brown, 44, of Kailua, communicated via social media platforms Whispe
View VerdictState of Hawai'i v. Scott David Deangelo
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree murder and first degree arson. Scott David Deangelo was accused of killing his roommate and setting fire to his apartment.
View VerdictValley Isle Motors, Ltd. v. P. Denise Law Costa
Wailuku, Hawaii, commercial litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a breach of contract claim. Valley Isle sued La Costa for $7,567.20. The amended complaint alleged that La Costa "had service work performed at her request by Valley Isle Motors which work was approved by her insurer State
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nehemiah Kealoha
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening to murder and assault a federal law enforcement official. Nehemiah Kealoha, 40, of Waianae, Oahu, approached a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Task Force Officer who had assisted in executing a fed
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Shota Yamamoto
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (50 U.S.C. § 4819). Shota Yamamoto, 29, of Tokyo, Japan, conspired with another person to export firearm components and tactical accessories from the United States
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Douglas Mycko
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer Caroline Elliott represented the Defendant charged with making ans subscribing to a false tax return. Douglas Mycko, 61, of Kurtistown, Hawaii, admitted to filing false tax returns for calendar years 2016 through 2020 in which he underreported his busin
View VerdictState of Hawaii v. Marquis Johnson
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with llegedly throwing acid on another man in Chinatown in Honolulu. Marquis Johnson, 34, turned himself in at Honolulu police headquarters and was held on suspicion of first-degree assault.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Travis Kalani Hong-Ah Nee
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute carfentanil, possessing with intent to distribute carfentanil, and possessing ammunition. Travis Kalani Hong-Ah Nee, 36, of Oahu, was pulled over by a Honolulu
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Robert Silva
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251. Robert Silva, agte 52, of Waipahu, Hawaii, admitted that on multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, he paid adults in the Philippines to sexually abuse c
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Vernon Santiago
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon and an unlawful user of controlled substances. Vernon Santiago, 45, of Mountain View, Hawaii, has a prior federal felony conviction from 2005 for unlawfully
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Heidi Cafirma
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with filing false tax returns and wire fraud related to her fraudulent application for unemployment assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For tax years 2016 through 2020, Heidi Cafirma, 50, of Waipahu, Hawaii, filed f
View VerdictSeuga Aumua and Faaaloalo Aumua v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii, personal Injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on negligence theories.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Lynden David Lightburn
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine, followed by 5 years of supervised release. From September 2020 to June 30, 2021, Lynden David Lightburn, a/k/a “Soulja,” age 42, of Los Angeles, Cal
View VerdictState of Hawaii v. John Doe
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 si
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marion Anthony Rogers
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking. (a) Offenses.— (1) Travel or conduct of offender.— A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and te
View VerdictGeorge Hunter v. Bell Textron, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii, personal injury lawyers represent the Plaintiff who sued on a product liability theory.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Inada
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of materials containing child porno. 18 U.S.C. 2252 provides in part: (a) Any person who— (1) knowingly transports or ships using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affe
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Robert Morris
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Shooting Federal Officer During Execution of Search Warrant and Sixteen-Hour Armed Standoff. Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Robert Morris, 49, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was arrested and charged by
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Robert Morris
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 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 we
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jeffrey L. Goss, aka Loran Gross
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r manufacture and possession with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B); two counts of felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
View VerdictWarren Yoshimoto, et al. v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.; Alaska Air Group, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued to stop the merger of Alaska Air and Hawaii Airlines. Plaintiffs, a group including airline passengers and former travel agents, seek to enjoin Alaska Airlines's acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. The district court dismissed
View VerdictState of Hawai'i v. John Naki
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony abuse of a family member. The State of Hawaii claimed that defendant's two prior abuse of family or household member (Abuse) offenses, charged in a single complaint resulting in a single judgment of conviction,
View VerdictThe State of Hawai'i v. Craig Stephen MacDonald
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony. "The basic elements of procedural due process are notice and an opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner." Mauna Kea Anaina Hou v. Bd. of Land & Nat. Res., 136 Hawai'i 376, 389,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Haitem Taylor Abid
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: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of f
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Ryan Holden Baxter
Honlulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making interstate threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which provides: (c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to inju
View VerdictState of Hawaii v. Jane Doe
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree attempted murder. Honolulu police arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing a 13-year-old girl at Beretania Community Park.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Robert Kinoshita
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. 21:841A=CD.F CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, 21
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Dwayne Yuen
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Oahu Basketball Coach Sentenced to 405 Month in Prison for Child Exploitation and Harassment Offenses Involving Ten Charged Victims Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Dwayne Yuen, a 52-y
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jillian Pecika, aka Mango
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.
View VerdictDonna Darlene Berry v. Social Security Administration
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.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Justin Shanlyn A. S. Park
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Fentanyl Pills Waikiki Drug Dealer Who Distributed Fentanyl Pills Linked to U.S. Marine's Death Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Just
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Patrick Nowicke
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. Armed Felon Indicted Af
View VerdictHelene Kaiwi v. Community Clinic of Maui, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a class action theory.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Eugene Raymond Hall
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marcel Tamaititahio
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to import drugs.
View VerdictChunming Wang v. Estela Derr, et al.
Honolulu, Hawaii immigration law lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas to release INS detainee.
View VerdictState of Hawaii v. John Lee Franks
Hilo, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually assaulting a minor. John Lee Franks, 47, was arrested over two years ago and charged in relation to incidents that occurred between November 2021 and February 2022.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brian Matsudo, Marshall Scott, Raheem Wells
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Scheme to Defraud Department of Veterans Affairs of Over $9.1M Three Individuals Charged in Scheme to Defraud Department of Veterans Affairs of Over $9.1M Three men were charged with participating in a
View VerdictD.R. v. T.R.
Hilo, Hawaii family law husband and wife with out layers in a divorce action. 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 mod
View VerdictState of Hawaii v. Gordon Cordeiro
Maui, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. 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. Gordon Cordeiro, was
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jonathan Farr
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Child Exploitation Honolulu Man Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for Child Exploitation of Multiple Minors Acting United States Attorney Kenneth M. Sorenson announced that Jonathan Farr, 31, of Honolul
View VerdictUnited States of America v. John B. Stancil
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering Miske Enterprise Member Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy Acting United States Attorney Kenneth M. Sorenson announced that John B. Stancil, 37, of Waiman
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