Court Case Briefs 5/25/2019
HONOLULU (AP) — A trial is underway for three Honolulu police officers accused of using excessive force on a man shot with a stun gun who later died.
The family of Sheldon Haleck is suing the officers. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports such cases rarely go to trial, but the city of Honolulu isn’t settling.
Attorneys for the family say Haleck, who was high on methamphetamine, wasn’t threatening anyone when officers pepper-sprayed him about a dozen times and shot him with a Taser gun as many as three times.
Haleck was walking through nighttime downtown Honolulu traffic in 2016. The officers say by being in the middle of a major five-lane street, Haleck put himself and the officers in danger.
The officers say they used reasonable force, which didn’t kill him.
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Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser
HONOLULU (AP) — A tourist couple accused of luring a Japanese woman to their Waikiki hotel room and sexually assaulting her are pleading not guilty.
Hawaii News Now reports Darrell and Nagisa Dorch pleaded not guilty Thursday to multiple counts of kidnapping and sexual assault.
Court documents detailing the alleged assault say the woman was raped at least four times.
The documents say the couple and the woman were hanging out at the Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort pool. The documents say the woman went to the couple’s room, where she was physically and sexually assaulted.
According to the documents, when the woman tried to leave, Darrell Dorch punched her at least 10 times.
Police say that after several hours the couple’s son knocked on the door and Nagisa Dorch escorted the woman out.
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Information from: KGMB-TV
