Native Hawaiian man could face longer prison sentence after conviction for hate crime against white man
The US Court of Appeal on Thursday, a Potentially led to prison, a US Court of Appeal, a Hawaii man who was convicted of hate against a white man was re -appointed.
Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, a jury and another domestic Hawaii man Levi Aki Jr., after finding guilty, was sentenced to prison by a Honolulu judge in 2023.
The jury found that in 2014, when they beat Christopher Kunzelman to try to move to their far villages in Maui, they were motivated by the race when they kicked and used a shovel.
The Alo-Kaonohi appealed the conviction and the prosecutors crossed the cross and challenged the decision of the judge that the development of hate crimes could not be applied to the punishment.
Hawaii men were convicted of racially motivated against the white man
9. The US Circuit Court decided to confirm Alo-Kaonohi’s conviction on Thursday.
It was exactly unclear how long alo-kaonohi could be necessary to spend it on the back of the pieces.
According to the court records, Aki’s appeal application was voluntarily rejected with prosecutors’ cross -four -year penalties.
Kunzelman’s wife, Lori Kunzelman, said to Associated Press on Thursday, said prosecutors were sentenced to a longer prison.
Kunzelmans, Lori Kunzelman’ın multiple sclerosis after the diagnosis of Arizona’dan, because they wanted to leave a house on the coast of the ruined, Harap bought a house.
“Every year we had a holiday in Maui – loved, loved, we loved Maui,” he said, said they saw the house as an appropriate opportunity for her husband to fix.
She announced that her husband had destroyed her marriage and that her husband was subjected to brain injuries causing divorce.
Christopher Kunzelman was traveling in Europe and could not be used to address the decision.
Lori Kunzelman is still the owner of the couple, but they don’t know what to do with it.
“The families there will not let anyone step into this property,” he said. “There is a lot of hostility.”
The use of the word “Haole”, the word hawaii, which has meanings that contain foreign and white people, was at the center of the case. Dennis Kunzelman said that the men called him “Haole” in a humiliating way.
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Alo-Kaonohi and Aki’s lawyers, Christopher Kunzelman’s race, not the race, he said he was a justified and disrespectful attitude.
According to the group’s joint director Kenneth Lawson, Hawaii Innocence project plans to take the case. The organization aims to claim that the history of the word “Haole” in Hawaii does not offer an ineffective defense to the jury to show that it is not a humiliating term.
Orum I don’t believe it is a hate crime, La Lawson said.
Lawson also said that the defense should call the White, non -Hawaii residents to express that they live in the village without racial problems.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
