How Many??

A father and son, ages 61 and 33, have 50 and 80 prior arrests, respectively, police said.

That's from a story about a raid at a Waipahu home the other day which netted a bunch of fighting cocks, drugs, and cash; the nine people arrested were released "pending further investigation."

Granted the prisons are overcrowded and the courts full, but still...

Any prosecutors or public defenders read this blog?

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I am neither a prosecutor or public defender but I have some interesting stats in relation to ice arrests and what happens when the defendants do go through the judicial system...it appears they don't make it that far...

Prosecutor’s Stats for Crystal Meth Cases Last Year (2002)

There were a total of 1,223 ice cases which went before prosecutors last year, of those:

Declined: 231
Dismissed: 9
Merged: 6
No Actioned: 24
No Bill: 1
Pending No Action: 3
Transferred: 2

Which comes out to a total of 276 ice counts declined, dismissed, merged etc.

And of those 410 cases which WERE ajudicated...

- 145 defendants plead guilty as charged
- 5 plead guilty to a lesser offense
219 plead no contest
- 21 had their cases dropped because the prosecutor decided not to prosecute
- 14 were found guilty at trial
- 1 found guilty of a lesser offense at trial
- 5 found not guilty at trial

according to prosecutors that leaves 535 Crystal Meth cases STILL PENDING from 2002. (But if you add up the numbers yourself, 276 + 410 + 535 = 1221, they’re off by 2 from the original total given; 1223)

Let's see, to be 33 and have 80 arrests, you'd have to be arrested every two months since you were 10. Can that number even be right?

On the one hand, an arrest is just that — an arrest. It doesn't mean they were convicted or even charged with anything, really. But, on the other hand, 80?

well are they misdemeanor or felony arrests? i can see 80 arrests if they're all for something like trespassing, driving w/out a license, driving w/out insurance, dui, etc, etc. There's a lot of manini crimes that you could just keep on getting arrested for and never charged because they're not serious enough to warrant being put behind bars.

now if this guy had like 20 robbery arrests, 10 for rapes, 10 attempted murders, 20 thefts and 20 burglaries, etc, etc then I'd be more concerned about that.

In reference to the story as seen on the front page of the
Honolulu advertiser:
"Easter Areola lives at the Kalihi home written by: Bruce Asato
The Honolulu Advertiser"
Nuisance Abatement Unit is not constitutional because it punishes
people without due process:
based solely upon probable cause .
Already the state has a court date in November for due process
of criminal action. Throwing people out on the street without a conviction
is unconstitutional. Rendering a person HOMELESS BEFORE
any conviction is even worse than DOUBLE JEOPARDY. Double jeopardy is
when an individual is twice
placed in jeopardy for the same offense.

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