Per diem judges named for Oahu District Court
Chief Justice Ronald Moon has appointed eight per diem judges for the Oahu District Court.The appointees are William Cardwell, Valerie Chang, Richard Marshall, Katharine Nohr, Peter Stone, Clyde Sumida, Matthew Viola and William Wallace III.
Cardwell is a former partner with Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright and received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall.
Chang, a sole practitioner, received a law degree from U.C. Davis School of Law and has served as a hearings officer for Hawaii special education cases.
Marshall, also a sole practitioner, has served with the state as an administrative hearings officer. He graduated from Hastings College of Law.
Nohr, a graduate of Utah College of Law, is vice president of Miyagi Nohr & Myhre, a law corporation, and serves as arbitrator for the Court Annexed Arbitration Program.
Stone, a graduate of Hastings College of Law, is a chief operating officer and legal counsel of U. Yamane Ltd., a commercial real estate firm.
Sumida, vice president and general counsel for the Queen's Health Systems, is a graduate of George Washington University National Law Center.
Viola, a Stanford Law School graduate, is a partner in the firm of Simons & Viola.
Wallace, an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, is in private practice. He is a graduate of J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU in Provo, Utah.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Police arrest suspect in September assault
Police arrested a 39-year-old man Monday after his former girlfriend reported he kidnapped and kicked her last month.The girlfriend, 40, said he confronted her on Sept. 18 at Market City Shopping Center and demanded she go to his apartment. He then locked her in the apartment, kicked her and berated her about having to serve six months behind bars because of her domestic violence complaint against him.
Man allegedly stabs 2 people at apartment
Police arrested a man in Kalihi yesterday after he allegedly stabbed two people.Police said the suspect forced his way into another man's apartment about 1:50 p.m. and stabbed him repeatedly.
Police said the suspect then stabbed the victim's female friend, who tried to intervene.
Police arrested the man on suspicion of attempted murder in the first degree, two counts of attempted murder in the second degree, and burglary in the first degree.
Both are in guarded condition at Queen's Medical Center.
LEEWARD OAHU
Waianae teen dies in moped accident
A 19-year-old boy driving a moped died last night after he collided with a black Chevrolet on Farrington Highway in Waianae.The driver, a 16-year-old Waianae boy, fled the scene of the 8:18 p.m. accident but turned himself in to Waianae police several hours later. He was arrested for investigation of negligent homicide and failure to render aid.
The city Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as Tyrone C. Pila-Ramos of Waianae. He was wearing a helmet, police said, and was thrown several feet in the collision.
Police said the Chevrolet was traveling eastbound on Farrington Highway and collided with the moped as it was changing lanes. Speed appeared to be a factor, police said.
[The Courts]
Attorney in Rice case sued for legal fees
Attorney John Goemans, who represented Harold "Freddy" Rice in the Rice v. Cayetano case, was sued by a Honolulu law firm that claims he failed to pay for legal services rendered to him.The suit, filed by Reinwald O'Connor & Playdon in Circuit Court yesterday, says the firm had been retained by Goemans to set aside a $1 million judgment against him in a separate case.
In Rice v. Cayetano, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-Hawaiians had the right to vote for candidates for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
The suit states that Goemans had agreed to pay his legal fees and costs to the Reinwald firm out of the $170,000 in legal fees he received in the Rice v. Cayetano case.
Goemans allegedly owes the Reinwald firm $83,417.57 for legal fees from Nov. 1, 2000, through April 1, 2002, and $5,526.54 for costs.
The suit is also asking for 12 percent per annum interest on the amount due.
Goemans could not be reached for comment.
Man faces 10 years for 1999 bank robbery
The last of four accused bank robbers prosecuted in a violent takeover robbery at American Savings in Kahala over three years ago faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years to life for carrying a semiautomatic rifle.A federal court jury found Sean Matsunaga, 23, guilty yesterday of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, bank robbery and two firearms offenses stemming from the July 1999 heist.
He faces a harsher penalty than he would have faced had he not withdrawn an earlier plea to bank robbery under a plea agreement in which he agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Bank robbery is punishable by 20 years imprisonment; conspiracy is punishable by five years imprisonment.
There is no parole under the federal system.
