Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Granville Roland Fortescue, his mother-in-law, and Seamen Lord and Jones for the second-degree murder of Joseph Kahahawai Jr. After that, locked in around the long table with Foreman John Stone at its head, the jurors settled down to harangue one another on Hawaii's most sensational case...
...Wednesday, Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii passed through probably the most difficult crisis of his official career. According to legal requirements, any leniency to the Massie defendants must come through him. The court was powerless to carry out the jury's recommendation for clemency, and unless immediate executive commutation intervened, all four prisoners would be forced to pay the penalty for their crime. And while Governor Judd knew well that native sentiment demanded punishment and would react disagreeably to undue leniency, he was influenced even more by expressions of American opinion which reached him. The Governor was not only...
...consideration of the native problem which this hasty clemency has provoked soon reveals a far deeper significance. The last few months in Hawaii have been little short of a governmental crisis. The horrible crime of the five native Hawaiians called forth a Congressional denunciation of the appalling laxity of law enforcement on the islands, a short-lived investigation, and a promise of stern impartial administration of justice in the future. But natives were more impressed by the failure to convict the attackers and the undue leniency and sympathy accorded the Massie group after they had taken justice into their...
...partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task almost impossible under present conditions of faltering leadership and public indifference...
Prosecutor: Was your husband always kind to you? Witness (softly): Yes. Prosecutor: Did you have a psychopathic examination at the University of Hawaii last summer? Witness (bridling): I went to see Dr. Kelly. Prosecutor (handing her a piece of paper): Do you remember writing these answers to a set of questions. . . ? Witness (blazing with anger): Where did you get that? (Snatching the paper.) Do you realize this is a confidential document-a matter between doctor and patient? What right have you to bring this into a public court?* Prosecutor: I'm asking questions, not answering them. Is that your...