STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3066

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 54
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Transportation and
Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 54
entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII SUPREME
     COURT STANDING COMMITTEE ON HAWAII RULES ON EVIDENCE TO
     STUDY THE APPROPRIATE USE OF COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL
     EVIDENCE AT TRAFFIC ACCIDENT SCENES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to request the Hawaii
Supreme Court Standing Committee on Hawaii Rules of Evidence to
study, in consultation with the Department of Transportation and
the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hawaii
at Manoa, the fairest evidentiary treatment of computer analysis
of photographs to determine locations, distances, and dimensions
of physical evidence of the scene of a traffic accident.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Judiciary, the Department of Transportation, and the Honolulu
Police Department.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Judiciary and Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur
with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 54, and recommend that
it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary and the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair


 
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