Opinion ID: 4527904
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Jair Trail

Text: State witness Jair Trail (“Trail”) testified as follows. Trail was staying at his Aunt Maile Labrador’s house on Palai Street between December 2012 and January 2013, and Martin, Trail’s uncle, would sometimes come over. On the night of January 2, 2013, Labrador told Trail that Martin could not come into the house. Later that night, Martin knocked on the door, 14  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  but Trail did not let him in. Trail awoke at around 4:00 a.m. and heard Martin say, “But why? It wasn’t me. I didn’t do it.” The next morning, Trail saw Martin sleeping on the couch. Martin spent the day reading the Bible and said “some crazy stuff” about living forever. Martin also told Trail that he was not going back to jail. At some point, Martin crawled out of his room and said that the police were there. Trail saw S.W.A.T trucks outside and heard the police identify themselves. He then saw Martin pull out a black and silver gun, put the gun against his chest, and pull the trigger. Trail then exited the house and identified himself to the police. On crossexamination, Trail testified that he heard Martin say, “I would rather die than go back to jail.” Trail did not know if Martin had any outstanding warrants or had actually served jail time before.