State v. Canosa

• Court: Hawaii Supreme Court
• Decided: June 17, 2014
• Docket: SCWC-11-0001051
• Status: Published

Opinion

Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCWC-11-0001051 17-JUN-2014 01:44 PM

SCWC-11-0001051

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

STATE OF HAWAI'I,

Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee,

vs.

STANLEY CANOSA,

Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant.

CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS

(CAAP-11-0001051; CR. NO. 09-1-1524)

ORDER REJECTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

(By: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, McKenna, Pollack, and Wilson, JJ.)

Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant Stanley Canosa’s

Application for Writ of Certiorari, filed on May 6, 2014, is

hereby rejected.1

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, June 17, 2014.

Emmanuel V. Tipon /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

for petitioner

/s/ Paula A. Nakayama

Sonja P. McCullen

for respondent /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

/s/ Richard W. Pollack

/s/ Michael D. Wilson

Upon retrial, the trial court may consider the appropriateness of an “inference” instruction. See State v. Steger, 114 Hawai'i 162, 171 n.18, 158 P.3d 280, 289 n.18 (2006); State v. Matafeo, 71 Haw. 183, 189, 787 P.2d 671, 674 (1990) (Wakatsuki, J., concurring); Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51, 59-60 (1988) (Stevens, J., concurring).