Opinion ID: 1127440
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Heading: opinion on motion for reconsideration

Text: For the following reasons, defendant-appellant Siaosi Malufau's Motion for Reconsideration is hereby granted in part and denied in part. On October 26, 1995, defendant-appellant Siaosi Malufau filed a timely motion for reconsideration of our opinion in State v. Malufau, ___ Hawai`i ___, 906 P.2d 612 (1995). In his motion for reconsideration, Malufau raises the following issues: (1) in light of our holding that insufficient evidence was presented at trial to support Malufau's conviction of the charged offense, assault in the first degree, is retrial on any and all included offenses barred by (a) the constitutional protection against double jeopardy or (b) Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 701-111(1)(c) (1993); and (2) assuming that retrial may be permitted for some included offenses, is retrial nonetheless barred with respect to the included offense of attempted assault in the first degree? For the reasons set forth below, we hold (1) that neither the constitutional protection against double jeopardy nor HRS § 701-111(1)(c) bars retrial on lesser included offenses after a determination on appeal that insufficient evidence was presented at trial to support a conviction, and (2) that retrial is barred with respect to the charge of attempted assault in the first degree because attempted assault in the first degree is not a lesser included offense of assault in the first degree. Accordingly, we grant in part and deny in part Malufau's motion for reconsideration and vacate the portion of our opinion that held that Malufau could be retried on the charge of attempted assault in the first degree.