Killer gets 7-year
minimum sentence
A man convicted of negligent homicide for driving drunk and killing police officer Danny Padayao has been ordered to serve at least seven years before he can be paroled, the Hawaii Paroling Authority has ruled.
Michael Coulter, 24, was earlier sentenced to the maximum 10 years after pleading guilty to first-degree negligent homicide and fleeing the scene after striking Padayao, who was directing traffic at an earlier accident in April 2001.
Other minimum terms issued by the Paroling Authority in December include:
>> 50 years to Henry Lagmay, convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing his girlfriend to death at her Waialae townhouse nearly three years ago.>> 30 years to Emelie Rauschenburg, convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing her Waipahu care-home operator to death in September 2000 because she wasn't happy with the food.
>> 8 years to Jones Poti, convicted of first-degree negligent homicide for causing the deaths of two women in a three-car crash in July 2000.
>> 13 years to Victor Faagau, convicted of manslaughter for beating and stomping to death a 34-year-old Waianae man, leaving him to die in July 2001.