HRS 0291E-0061 ANNOTATIONS
Note
Sections 291E-61 to 291E-65 renumbered pursuant to §23G-15(1).
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ANNOTATIONS ABOVE RELATE TO ARTICLE, CHAPTER, OR PART HEADING;
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Law Journals and Reviews
Prior law (§291-4).
State v. O'Brien: Right to Jury Trial for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor. 8 UH L. Rev. 209.
State v. Mata: Disqualification of a Trial Judge. 13 UH L. Rev. 641.
Administering Justice or Just Administration: The Hawaii Supreme Court and the Intermediate Court of Appeals. 14 UH L. Rev. 271.
The Protection of Individual Rights Under Hawai`i's Constitution. 14 UH L. Rev. 311.
Hawai'i's New Administrative Driver's License Revocation Law: A Preliminary Due Process Inquiry. 14 UH L. Rev. 853.
Criminal Procedure Rights Under the Hawaii Constitution Since 1992. 18 UH L. Rev. 683.
Case Notes
Decisions under prior law (§291-4).
Applied to member of military who drove on base while drunk. 799 F.2d 1401.
Pursuant to federal law, section applies to military personnel driving in federal enclaves. 631 F. Supp. 319.
Defendant charged with driving under the influence and illegal blood alcohol level on federal property was not entitled to jury trial under Assimilative Crimes Act. 781 F. Supp. 676.
Review of excessive sentence by supreme court. 39 H. 152.
Jail sentence for conviction of driving while intoxicated is not "illegal or excessive". 39 H. 303.
Weight and sufficiency of evidence. 56 H. 161, 532 P.2d 391.
Results of blood test taken in violation of §286-155 admissible in proceedings hereunder. 59 H. 173, 579 P.2d 663.
Guilty plea under this section does not preclude liability for refusal to submit to sobriety testing. 68 H. 512, 721 P.2d 705.
DUI is a traffic offense. 69 H. 253, 739 P.2d 930.
Deferred acceptance of no contest plea is not available to a defendant in DUI case. 69 H. 602, 752 P.2d 597.
Retrial allowed where charges for DUI and driving with 0.10 per cent alcohol are brought together, and a mistrial is declared on one charge because of the jury's inability to agree. 70 H. 332, 770 P.2d 420.
Section provides two alternative means of proving a single offense; bifurcating the two methods of proof into separate trials violated defendant's due process rights. 70 H. 528, 777 P.2d 1187.
State did not have to show that prior conviction was counseled where defendant's second conviction imposed no increase in sentence. 71 H. 147, 785 P.2d 1311.
Proof that defendant was driving on a public highway was not required. 71 H. 258, 787 P.2d 691.
Court went beyond statute in its instructions to the jury. 71 H. 319, 789 P.2d 1122.
Defendant's uncounseled DUI conviction could not be used to collaterally support enhanced sentence. 71 H. 617, 801 P.2d 555.
No double jeopardy where defendant was acquitted of one of the counts. 72 H. 56, 806 P.2d 402.
Two counts, based on two methods of proof, for the same offense was not improper. 72 H. 130, 809 P.2d 442.
Amendments to sentencing provisions of section did not have retrospective application. 72 H. 597, 825 P.2d 1065.
Charge of first-offense DUI under this section as amended by Act 128, L 1993, was constitutionally petty, therefore, no right to jury trial attached to first-offense DUI; retrospective application of this section, as amended by Act 128 did not violate the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution; retroactive application of decision to pending cases passed test enunciated in State v. Ikezawa; Act 128 did not violate equal protection. 76 H. 360, 878 P.2d 699.
Intoxilyzer test result can be used in prosecution of violation of subsection (a)(1) when count of violating subsection (a)(2) has been dismissed. 77 H. 94, 881 P.2d 1240.
Driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor is a "criminal offense", not a "traffic offense", for purposes of HRPP rule 48. 78 H. 54, 890 P.2d 291.
Both the circuit and district courts have concurrent jurisdiction over DUI cases. 78 H. 367, 893 P.2d 795.
Circuit court erred in its ruling on the applicability of HRPP rule 48 to DUI cases. 78 H. 367, 893 P.2d 795.
Since ADLRO proceedings serve legitimate, nonpunitive, purely remedial functions, defendant's subsequent criminal prosecution not barred by double jeopardy, res judicata, and/or collateral estoppel principles. 79 H. 1, 897 P.2d 928.
Defendant's arguments that defendant's conviction (DUI in violation of subsection (a)(2)) was not supported by substantial evidence and was inconsistent with defendant's acquittal in count I (violation of subsection (a)(1)), rejected; where defendant was charged in two counts alleging one DUI offense, trial court did not commit plain error by instructing jury that defendant was charged with more than one offense. 79 H. 336, 902 P.2d 971.
As §286-261(d) does not require defendant to submit to needs assessment nor undergo any treatment for alcohol dependence, application of that section with DUI conviction under this section not double jeopardy violation. 80 H. 8, 904 P.2d 893.
Defendant not subjected to multiple punishments as a result of administrative driver's license revocation under §286-261 and DUI conviction under this section as administrative revocation non-punitive and purely remedial in nature. 81 H. 226, 915 P.2d 700.
Ninety-day suspension of driver's license under this section for drunken bicyclist not unconstitutional where: (1) no showing that disparity of risk between drunken bicyclists and drunken automobile drivers is so great; and (2) suspension not disproportionately onerous compared to more serious crimes in same jurisdiction and for the same offense in different jurisdictions. 87 H. 249, 953 P.2d 1347.
"Vehicle" under this section includes bicycles; application of section to defendant bicyclist not absurd. 87 H. 249, 953 P.2d 1347.
Where conviction is based solely on a chemical test, the results of the test when taken together with its tolerance for error must equal or exceed the statutory level. 1 H. App. 44, 613 P.2d 916.
Mandatory sentence not applicable where defendant committed second DUI offense before being convicted of first. 5 H. App. 205, 683 P.2d 400.
Defendant charged under section has right to jury trial; not unconstitutionally vague. 5 H. App. 491, 704 P.2d 905, aff'd 68 H. 39, 704 P.2d 883.
Defendant may challenge reliability of intoxilyzer test. 7 H. App. 20, 740 P.2d 1017.
Results of intoxilyzer test properly admitted. 7 H. App. 440, 777 P.2d 717.
Governmental approval of breath testing instrument and of procedures of its use are sufficient basis for reasonable inference that instrument measures blood alcohol concentration by weight, as required by statute. 7 H. App. 542, 783 P.2d 1235.
Second intoxilyzer test was valid even if observation period was less than fifteen minutes. 7 H. App. 627, 789 P.2d 1133.
DUI conviction reversed because jury instruction required jurors to infer a presumed fact. 7 H. App. 631, 790 P.2d 340.
Finding mens rea not required for conviction. 8 H. App. 145, 795 P.2d 285.
DUI conviction reversed where State failed to lay proper foundation for admission into evidence of test result obtained from breath-testing instrument. 9 H. App. 130, 828 P.2d 813.
DUI conviction proper where prior accuracy verification test on intoxilyzer used showed it was operating accurately. 9 H. App. 291, 836 P.2d 506.
Substantial, probative evidence to enable a person of reasonable caution to conclude defendant was DUI under subsection (a)(1); nothing in statute requires alcohol be the sole or exclusive cause of a defendant's impairment; what is required is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that liquor contributed to the diminishment of the defendant's capacity to drive safely. 91 H. 288, 983 P.2d 189.
As violation of this section may be proven by proof that either the arrested driver operated a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or that the driver operated a vehicle while having a blood alcohol concentration level specified or exceeding that specified in the statute, evidence was sufficient to support finding that driver was driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor, irrespective of admissibility of breath test results. 96 H. 190, 29 P.3d 380.
Sufficient evidence was adduced at trial to conclude that defendant's blood alcohol content was .19 per cent--which is the equivalent of .19 grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters or cubic centimeters--and, therefore, as a matter of law, was above the legal limit. 96 H. 320, 30 P.3d 926.
The meaning of "prior alcohol enforcement contact" must be explained when advising a person arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor, of the potential length of license revocation for refusal to take a blood alcohol concentration test or for failing such a test, as set forth in §286-261, in order to ensure that the refusal of, or consent to, such a test is knowingly and intelligently made. 97 H. 463, 40 P.3d 865.
Where complaint merely alleged that defendant was "under the influence of intoxicating liquor" but failed to allege a critical facet of a material element of driving under the influence offense that defendant was under the influence of intoxicating liquor "in an amount sufficient to impair defendant's normal mental faculties or ability to care for defendant and guard against casualty", it failed to state an offense and was fatally defective; thus trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. 101 H. 139, 63 P.3d 1109.
No reversible error in admitting intoxilyzer test result into evidence where State laid adequate evidentiary foundation. 80 H. 102 (App.), 905 P.2d 77.
Under subsection (a)(2), prosecution must establish that result of chemical test involved, when taken together with its tolerance for error, must equal or exceed the statutory threshold of .10 BAC to prove that actual weight of alcohol in defendant's blood was at least 0.10 per cent. 80 H. 138 (App.), 906 P.2d 624.
Where intoxilyzer measured BAC level to a thousandth of one per cent, any error in receiving the thousandth reading in evidence was harmless, as evidence indicated thousandth digit reading was irrelevant. 80 H. 138 (App.), 906 P.2d 624.
Where evidence not presented at trial that defendant received counsel or intelligently waived counsel at prior DUI convictions, proof for enhanced sentencing purposes not satisfied. 81 H. 76 (App.), 912 P.2d 573.
Though trial court erred in admitting officer's testimony on defendant's horizontal gaze nystagmus test results, error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt and there was sufficient evidence to convict defendant under this section. 94 H. 388 (App.), 15 P.3d 314.
State failed to establish proper foundation for admission under HRE rule 701 of officer's opinion that defendant failed field sobriety tests; trial court erred in concluding defendant was DUI under subsection (a)(1) when it relied upon officer's opinion that defendant had "failed" the tests, rather than on defendant's actions or demeanor in performing the tests. 95 H. 409 (App.), 23 P.3d 744.
The term "convicted" in this section refers to a prior valid DUI conviction. 100 H. 324, 60 P.3d 274.
Decisions under prior law (§291-7).
There is no right to a jury trial under either the U.S. Constitution or Hawaii constitution for a first-time driving under the influence of drugs offense under §291-7 (1993) as the offense is a "petty" and not "serious" offense. 97 H. 259, 36 P.3d 803.
Red and glassy eyes, a criminal record, and imperfect driving, standing alone, were insufficient to establish probable cause to arrest a person for driving under the influence of drugs; as officer did not have probable cause to arrest defendant and did not subject defendant to sustained and coercive questioning, Miranda warnings were not warranted when defendant was questioned about defendant's alcohol consumption. 99 H. 370, 56 P.3d 138.
Section 701-109(1)(e) prohibition against conviction for more than one offense when defendant's conduct establishes an element of more than one offense not violated by defendant's convictions for driving under the influence of drugs under this section and inattentive driving under §291-12 as driving under the influence of drugs required defendant to be under the influence of drugs and inattention to driving did not. 98 H. 188 (App.), 46 P.3d 1.