HRS 0571-0031 ANNOTATIONS

On suppression of evidence seized in violation of statute, see Suppression of Evidence Without the Aid of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments. 8 HBJ 109.

Subsection (b) only requires that police contact a minor's parent, guardian, or legal custodian to notify them that their child is in police custody; it does not give statutory right to minor's parent, guardian, or legal custodian to communicate with the minor prior to and to be present at the minor's custodial interrogation. 90 H. 246, 978 P.2d 684.

In absence of any specified time limit in the HRS, when a child who is taken into custody under this section is going to be released to the custody of the child's parent or other responsible adult under subsection (b)(1), the release to the parent or responsible adult must occur within a reasonable time. 91 H. 147 (App.), 981 P.2d 704.

In the absence of any evidence that lapse of time was unreasonable, police did not violate notification requirement of subsection (b). 91 H. 147 (App.), 981 P.2d 704.