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A Local Hawaiian man Anyone who was convicted of a white man for a hate criminal must be submitted on Thursday, which may have led to additional years in prison.
Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi was sentenced to six and a half years in 2023 after a jury found him and another native of Hawaiian, Levi Aki Jr.
The jury found that the couple was motivated by races when they kicked, kicked and used in 2014 to defeat Christopher Kunzelman because he tried to move to her remote village in Maui.
Alo-Kaonohi made an appeal against the conviction, and the public prosecutor handed over and asked the judge’s decision that the improvement of hate crimes could not be applied to the judgment.
Hawaii men convicted of the white man for racially motivated attack
A native of Hawaiian, who was convicted of a white man for a hate crime, must be considered again, a US Court of Appeal. (AP)
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals Panel also decided on Thursday to confirm the conviction of Alo-Kaonohi.
It was unclear how long Alo-Kaonohi was still necessary to be necessary Spend behind bars.
Aki’s appeal together with the appeal of the public prosecutors from Aki’s prison sentence of about four years was voluntarily released, as court files.
Kunzelman’s wife, Lori Kunzelman, announced The Associated Press on Thursday that she was glad that the public prosecutor had pushed for a longer prison sentence.
The Kunzelmans bought a dilapidated house by the sea because they wanted to leave Arizona after Lori Kunzelman’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
“We went on vacation in Maui year after year – loved, loved, loved Maui,” she said, noticing that she saw the house as an affordable opportunity that her husband could repair.
Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi was sentenced to six and a half years in 2023 after a jury found him and another man guilty. (Getty Images)
She said her husband’s blows destroyed her marriage and explained that her husband had suffered brain injuries that caused her to divorce.
Christopher Kunzelman traveled in Europe and not available to tackle the decision.
The couple still has ownership, but they don’t know what to do with it, said Lori Kunzelman.
“The families there will not allow anyone to enter this property,” she said. “There is so much hostility.”
The use of the word “Hair”, a Hawaiian word with meanings that include foreigners and white, was of central importance in the event. Dennis Kunzelman said that the men called him “Hair” in a derogatory way.
2 local Hi men to be convicted of a hate criminal after having brutally beaten a white man
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals Panel also decided on Thursday to confirm the conviction of Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi. (Getty Images)
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Lawyers from Alo-Kaonohi and Aki said that Christopher Kunzelman’s justified and disrespectful attitude that annoyed her was not his breed.
The Hawaii Innocence project plans to take over the case, according to the group’s co-director, Kenneth Lawson. The organization tries to argue that an ineffective defense of the jury did not present the history of the word “Haole” in Hawaii to show that it is not a derogatory term.
“I just don’t think it’s a Hate crime“, Said Lawson.
Lawson also said that the defense should have called white, not Hawaiian residents as witnesses to testify that they lived in the village without racist problems.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
