Newswatch

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Wednesday, September 18, 1996

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One of the defendants, 20-year-old Kent "Kimo" Stone, an alleged drug dealer, stared down the jurors yesterday until they filed out, making some too nervous to comment immediately after the verdict. Stone then cursed at the prosecuting attorney.

Wayne Hunt, 20, the other defendant whom several witnesses said was not involved with drugs, remained quiet and looked down.

With convictions of attempted murder in the second degree, the young men face a mandatory sentence of life in prison with possible parole. They will be sentenced Nov. 27.

The prosecution says that although domestic violence is inexcusable, it doesn't give anyone the right to kill.

Both sides made opening statements yesterday in the second-degree murder trial of 21-year-old Tamra Reed, who stabbed to death her military husband, Charles Reed Jr., also 21, in their Waikele apartment last Feb. 22.

Defense attorney Paul Cunney described a series of beatings during a nine-month marriage in which Charles Reed rammed his wife's head against a wall, choked her, threatened to burn her with a hot iron, punched her in the stomach and "slammed his fist into her vagina when she was five months pregnant ... trying to kill the fetus in her stomach."

"This is a classic case of self-defense, bolstered by battered-woman syndrome," said Cunney, who plans to call expert witnesses on the subject.

Deputy Prosecutor Glenn Kim, however, said "battered-woman syndrome" in itself is not a legal defense.

Police/Fire


By Star-Bulletin staff

The pickup, driven by a 41-year-old man, was traveling on Auhuhu Street near Akepa Street about 7:30 a.m. when it struck the girl, who apparently darted into the roadway, witnesses told investigators.

She suffered head and internal injuries and was taken to Queen's Hospital, and later transferred to Kapiolani Hospital.

The man entered the bank at 30 Kalakaua St. about 8:30 a.m. and passed a note demanding money to the teller. He left the bank before receiving cash and was seen running away.

The suspect is 6 feet tall and 160 pounds. He was wearing a cowboy hat, dark-colored shorts, a long-sleeved plaid flannel shirt, golf cap and sunglasses.