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William Meheula, attorney for Michael Quiaoit, said his client's brain injury from the campus beating caused behavioral disabilities and reduced his intellectual ability to address his changes.
"He has a reduction in intelligence," Meheula said yesterday during closing arguments in a lawsuit brought by Elizabeth Quiaoit, Michael's mother, against the state Department of Education.
"And what's really stressful is that he knows it," Meheula added. "He knows."
Meheula asked for more than $2.3 million in damages for Quiaoit, including $176,863 for future medical expenses; $372,872 for loss of earning capacity; $500,000 for suffering; $500,000 for loss of enjoyment of life; $300,000 for emotional distress and $300,000 for his parents' loss and distress.
He said the state should pay because its plan to protect students on registration day on a campus with a potential for violence was defective.
But Diane Taira, deputy attorney general, said the state fulfilled its duty to provide reasonable supervision when it staffed the campus with 25 teachers and four vice principals.
She said no one, including police and Quiaoit, foresaw the violence that erupted on Aug. 24, 1994.
Taira also said Quiaoit contributed to the incident by participating in a gang and continuing to attend Farrington.
Plans call for the creation of a six-acre park in the Kakaako section of Honolulu makai of Ala Moana Boulevard.
Cayetano yesterday said the project is an important component in the state's move to transform the waterfront area into a corridor of recreational and cultural activities with shops and restaurants.
The project will include a four-
acre playing field and a two-acre passive park. It requires installation of new water, sewer and drainage structures and construction of new sidewalks, walkways and street lights.
Work is scheduled to be completed early next year.
The event, which will include auctions, door prizes and pupus, will start at 6 p.m. in the Heritage Ballroom of the Japanese Cultural Center, 2454 S. Beretania St.
Among the door prizes and auction items are a round-trip for two to Paris and trips to Las Vegas and Disneyland.
Proceeds will be used for patient services and other American Cancer Society programs.
Tickets are $100, half of which is tax deductible. Formal attire is suggested. For information, call 595-7544.
The attack will take the form of a graffiti paint-out along Moanalua Road. Volunteers will paint the mauka walls from Kaamilo Street to Aiea Library.
Additional volunteers from the ranks of Aiea residents and organizations are encouraged to help. Work will begin at 8 a.m. in the parking lot under the gymnasium at Aiea High School, and will continue until 3 p.m.
All volunteers are asked to bring their own rollers, brushes and lunch. It's not necessary to volunteer for all day. For information, call Suzette Yamasaki at 487-1586 by Monday.
Kenneth Kaili is charged with three counts of first-degree sexual assault, third-degree sexual assault and terroristic threatening, Maui police said. Kaili was brought by police from Molokai to Maui yesterday.
Kaili was arrested after the girl told a state child welfare worker about the alleged assaults. She also charged that she was threatened with a rifle. Kaili's bail is set at $160,000.
The two managers had just stepped outside before midnight when they heard footsteps and were confronted by a man wearing a ski mask, police said.
The suspect, armed with possibly a .45-caliber handgun, ordered them to lie on the ground and fled on foot with the money bag. The two employees were not injured.
The gunman was described as between 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8, 140 pounds and slim built.
This is the second time employees from the Kipapa Drive pizza shop have been robbed while making a deposit, police said.
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