Opinion ID: 4527904
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Heading: Cindee Lorenzo

Text: State witness Cindee Lorenzo (“Lorenzo”) testified as follows. Lorenzo was a criminalist at the Honolulu Police Department Scientific Investigation Section (“SIS”) assigned to the Firearm and Tool Mark Unit. The State and defense stipulated to the chain of custody of items sent to SIS by Detective Todd. Lorenzo determined that the eight casings recovered from Maile Street and the three casings found beneath the black vehicle matched the firearm recovered from the East Palai Street house. Lorenzo also determined that the casing 17  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  recovered from the East Palai Street residence matched the firearm from the East Palai Street house. j. Sonya Chong State witness Sonya Chong (“Chong”) testified as follows. Chong had been Martin’s girlfriend from December 2011 to June 2012 and she and Martin had lived together at the beginning of 2012. Chong had seen Martin with a silver and gray hand-held firearm toward the end of their relationship. Martin would practice aiming the firearm and say, “[F]uck the cops.” On cross-examination, Chong testified that Martin did not indicate to her that he was fearful of others, but that Martin slept with his gun under his pillow. Chong also acknowledged that testifying against Martin was “an opportunity for [her] to get back at [him].” k. David Carroll Defense witness David Carroll (“Carroll”) testified as follows. On January 2, 2013, Carroll was beaten and arrested by police for disorderly conduct. On that day, the police told Carroll they were “looking for a murderer,” and identified Martin by name. Carroll spent three days in jail and the police tried “to get [him] to state that [he had] personally seen [Martin] shoot the officers.” Carroll had not, however, seen Martin shoot officers. On cross-examination, Carroll testified that Martin was “like a brother” to him, and that on January 2, 18  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  2013, he had been distraught because he thought the police had shot Martin. He had left Martin at Pono Place on January 2, 2013, and he knew Martin had a gun. Carroll also later testified as a witness called by the State as follows. On January 2, 2013, Carroll had been living at the Maile Apartments. At around 7:00 p.m. on that day, Carroll had left home with Martin to buy milk for Carroll’s son. Carroll and Martin stopped in front of the apartments and Martin asked Carroll if it was “okay to pop off some rounds.” Martin showed Carroll a black gun, said “Fuck the police,” and raised his gun and started shooting it into the air. After Martin fired the gun, Carroll saw police lights, and he and Martin “started crawling like military soldiers” to avoid being seen for approximately half an hour. Carroll and Martin then went to Pono Place, where Martin started a conversation with people fishing. Carroll left Martin at Pono Place and bought milk at a gas station. Carroll then returned to the Maile Apartments. At the Maile Apartments, Carroll ran into Misty Quiocho (“Quiocho”), who asked him where Martin was. Carroll told Quiocho that he was going to check on Martin at Pono Place. Carroll then heard a series of gunshots that “weren’t all from the same weapon,” and he “ran hysterically toward that direction” thinking Martin had been shot. While he was crossing a bridge, a police officer approached him from Pono Place and 19  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  yelled at him to “get back.” Carroll walked back toward Maile Street to talk with his neighbors, but was then “ordered to approach the police officers,” who wanted to question him about “why [he] came towards them in that way.” Carroll testified the police slammed him into the ground and beat him up. He was then taken to the police station, where he stayed for three days. l. Misty Quiocho Defense witness Quiocho testified as follows. Quiocho had previously been convicted of crimes of dishonesty.6 Martin had been Quiocho’s boyfriend off and on for four years. During Quiocho’s relationship with Martin, he had been afraid to sleep and would barricade the door “so nobody could come in to hurt us or him or his family.” Quiocho had never seen Martin with a gun and had not heard him make threats against the police. Martin was fearful of and tried to avoid the police. Also, Martin had attempted suicide eight months to a year before January 2013. On cross-examination, Quiocho testified that she still loved Martin and that Martin had been avoiding the police because the police had a warrant for him. 6 Quiocho testified that she had been convicted for forgery in the second degree, theft in the second degree, theft in the fourth degree, and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle. The admission of Quiocho’s previous convictions are not raised as an issue on appeal. 20  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER