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Clutching a framed portrait of his dead wife, Wendell Chun urged the court to put her killer behind bars. He said he didn't want to see another negligent driver walk away from a pedestrian fatality without getting any jail time, especially not this driver.
Jeung Ja Kwak had seven prior traffic offenses, including going 73 mph in a 55 mph zone, before she got behind the wheel of her sport utility vehicle on a sunny morning in February 2007 and struck Lois Jeanine Reed in a crosswalk. More »
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The families of two elderly pedestrians who were killed in O'ahu crosswalks in 2005 still have questions about the way police investigated the cases.
Their main one: Did officers do a thorough and impartial job investigating two of their own?
The drivers in both cases were off-duty Honolulu police officers. In both cases, police initially indicated that speed may have been a factor. More »
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The Honolulu Police Department has refused to disclose names of O'ahu drivers arrested in past pedestrian-fatality cases, saying state law prevents it from doing so. But The Advertiser easily obtained the same type of information from two Neighbor Island police departments, raising the question of why HPD is applying the law differently.
The Office of Information Practices, the agency that determines whether county and state records are public, has not addressed this specific issue.
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