Bumpy Kanahele remained in Halkawa Prison until Nov. 13, when a different judge remanded him to a halfway house to await a new trial. Juror DeCosta did not sneak out to the scene of the crime to play amateur detective. He simply looked up the highest law of the land. Laws are not supposed to be written in some code, interpretable only by robed priestesses. If common folk are to obey them, then they must be written for common folk to read and understand.
Jurors have every right to do so.
Defense attorney Hayden Aluli says he'll object to a re-trial, since the mistrial was declared over his objections. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127.