State v. Shigemura ( 2016 )


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    Electronically Filed
    Supreme Court
    SCWC-12-0000902
    04-MAR-2016
    08:17 AM
    SCWC-12-0000902
    IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I
    STATE OF HAWAI#I,
    Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee,
    vs.
    DERRICK Y. SHIGEMURA,
    Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant.
    CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
    (CAAP-12-0000902; CASE NO. 1DTA-11-05369)
    SUMMARY DISPOSITION ORDER
    (By: McKenna, Pollack, and Wilson, JJ.,
    with Wilson, J., concurring separately,
    and Nakayama, J., dissenting,
    with whom Recktenwald, C.J., joins)
    Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant Derrick Y. Shigemura
    seeks review of the Intermediate Court of Appeals’ (ICA) July
    16, 2014 Judgment on Appeal, entered pursuant to its May 28,
    2014 Summary Disposition Order, which affirmed the District
    Court of the First Circuit’s (district court) October 2, 2012
    Notice of Entry of Judgment and/or Order and Plea/Judgment
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    (district court judgment).1      The district court found Shigemura
    guilty of Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of an
    Intoxicant (OVUII), in violation of Hawai#i Revised Statutes
    (HRS) § 291E-61(a)(3) (Supp. 2010).2        This court accepted
    Shigemura’s Application for Writ of Certiorari, and we now
    vacate the ICA’s Judgment on Appeal and the district court
    judgment and remand the case to the district court for further
    proceedings.
    After being arrested for OVUII, Shigemura was taken to
    the police station, where he was read an implied consent form.3
    1
    The Honorable Clarence A. Pacarro presided.
    2
    HRS § 291E-61(a)(3) (Supp. 2010) provides in relevant part:
    (a)   A person commits the offense of operating a vehicle under
    the influence of an intoxicant if the person operates or
    assumes actual physical control of a vehicle:
    . . .
    (3)   With .08 or more grams of alcohol per two hundred ten
    liters of breath. . . .
    3
    The form read in relevant part:
    1. ___ Any person who operates a vehicle upon a public way,
    street, road, or highway or on or in the waters of the State
    shall be deemed to have given consent to a test or tests for
    the purpose of determining alcohol concentration or drug
    content of the persons [sic] breath, blood or urine as
    applicable.
    2. ___ You are not entitled to an attorney before you submit to
    any tests [sic] or tests to determine your alcohol and/or drug
    content.
    3. ___ You may refuse to submit to a breath or blood test, or
    both for the purpose of determining alcohol concentration
    and/or blood or urine test, or both for the purpose of
    determining drug content, none shall be given [sic], except as
    provided in section 291E-21. However, if you refuse to submit
    2
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    Shigemura elected to take a breath test, which resulted in a
    breath alcohol content reading of 0.105 grams of alcohol per 210
    liters of breath.     In his motion to suppress the breath test
    results before the district court and on certiorari, Shigemura
    contends that (1) his Miranda rights under Article I, Section 10
    of the Hawaiʻi Constitution were violated when, while in custody,
    he was asked by the police, without Miranda warnings, if he
    wanted to refuse to take a blood alcohol test, which was likely
    to incriminate himself; (2) his statutory right to an attorney
    was violated; and (3) the wording of the implied consent form
    misinformed Shigemura of the sanctions.4          Shigemura also noted in
    his Application that this court had accepted certiorari in State
    v. Won, SCWC-12-858, and he contended that the court’s ruling in
    Won would “ultimately decide what happens in the present case.”
    In State v. Won, 136 Hawaiʻi 292, 312, 
    361 P.3d 1195
    ,
    1215 (2015), we held that “coercion engendered by the Implied
    Consent Form runs afoul of the constitutional mandate that
    waiver of a constitutional right may only be the result of a
    to a breath, blood, or urine test, you shall be subject to up
    to thirty days imprisonment and/or fine up to $1,000 or the
    sanctions of 291E-65, if applicable. In addition, you shall
    also be subject to the procedures and sanctions under chapter
    291E, part III.
    4
    Included in this third argument raised before the district court,
    Shigemura contended that the police officers’ warnings and advisements based
    on the implied consent form were coercive and that he did not knowingly and
    voluntarily submit to the breath alcohol testing. The district court denied
    his motion to suppress, and the ICA affirmed the district court’s ruling.
    3
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    free and unconstrained choice,” and, thus, a defendant’s
    decision to submit to testing after being read the implied
    consent form “is invalid as a waiver of his right not to be
    searched.”    In accordance with State v. Won, the result of
    Shigemura’s breath test was the product of a warrantless search,
    and the ICA erred by concluding that the district court properly
    denied Shigemura’s motion to suppress the breath test result.
    Accordingly, Shigemura’s OVUII conviction cannot be upheld.
    IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the ICA’s July 16, 2014
    Judgment on Appeal and the district court judgment are vacated,
    and the case is remanded to the district court for further
    proceedings consistent with this court’s opinion in State v.
    Won.
    DATED:   Honolulu, Hawai#i, March 4, 2016.
    Jonathan Burge                        /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna
    for petitioner
    /s/ Richard W. Pollack
    Brian R. Vincent                      /s/ Michael D. Wilson
    for respondent
    4
    

Document Info

Docket Number: SCWC-12-0000902

Filed Date: 3/4/2016

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 3/4/2016