But then no one other than Kealoha really knows what transpired. The other side of the story is not available. Naturally, his parents can't believe that their son would do this. All parents think that their children would never do something like this. Kealoha will serve only 10 months for taking a person's life away forever.
Bank robbers spend more time in prison than that.
That is a very short time compared to the life term that Office Miller received. What did not surprise me, however, was the reaction or lack thereof from the entrenched majority party. The governor deflected the entire article as a promotion for Maui Mayor Lingle's prospective run. Also not surprising was the apparent lack of concern by the populace. Despite the protests of Lowell Kalapa, the barrage of negative statistics and the oratory of state Sen. Sam Slom, most of us seem to pretend that either there is nothing happening or there is nothing we can do about it.