Report Title:

Examination; Arrest

Description:

Increases from 48 to 72 hours the length of time required before a person arrested on suspicion of having committed a crime must be either released or charged.  Excludes weekends and holidays in the calculation.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1148
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CHAPTER 803, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 803-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§803-9  Examination after arrest; rights of arrested person.  It shall be unlawful in any case of arrest for examination:

     (1)  To deny to the person so arrested the right of seeing, at reasonable intervals and for a reasonable time at the place of the person's detention, counsel or a member of the arrested person's family;

     (2)  To unreasonably refuse or fail to make a reasonable effort, where the arrested person so requests and prepays the cost of the message, to send a telephone, cable, or wireless message through a police officer or another than the arrested person to the counsel or member of the arrested person's family;

     (3)  To deny to counsel (whether retained by the arrested person or a member of the arrested person's family) or to a member of the arrested person's family the right to see or otherwise communicate with the arrested person at the place of the arrested person's detention (A) at any time for a reasonable period for the first time after the arrest, and (B) thereafter at reasonable intervals and for a reasonable time;

     (4)  In case the person arrested has requested that the person see an attorney or member of the person's family, to examine the person before the person has had a fair opportunity to see and consult with the attorney or member of the person's family;

     (5)  To fail within [forty-eight] seventy-two hours of the arrest of a person on suspicion of having committed a crime either to release or to charge the arrested person with a crime and take the arrested person before a qualified magistrate for examination[.]; provided that the calculation of the seventy-two hours shall not include weekends and holidays."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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