Opinion ID: 2778011
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Conviction Clauses

Text: The effect of the Conviction Clauses is to require registration by sex offenders and other covered offenders under HRS Chapter 846E for particular convictions from other jurisdictions; that is, completed conduct in another jurisdiction. HRS §§ 846E-1, 846E-2. In contrast, HRS § 707756 prohibits conduct committed with the intent to facilitate or promote a felony; i.e. relating to uncompleted or future conduct. The scope of HRS § 707-756 is not broadened by the reference in HRS § 846E-1 to convictions in other jurisdictions because it is of no meaning to say that a person has the “intent to promote or facilitate” completed conduct; one cannot have the legal intent to do what one has already done. Thus, with regard to the Conviction Clauses, the ICA correctly determined that HRS § 707-756 does not incorporate convictions from other jurisdictions, and therefore the statute is not unconstitutionally vague on that basis.31 Alangcas, 131 Hawaiʻi at 321, 318 P.3d at 611. 31 However, the incorporation of the Conviction Clauses into HRS § 707-756 through HRS § 846E-1 is not “redundant,” Alangcas, 131 Hawaiʻi at 321, 318 P.3d at 611, but instead, it is of no substantive legal effect. - 47 - FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAIʻI REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER