Daily Archives: September 19, 2013

My friend, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Loren Haugen called me tonight and said my dad was on his jury trial for a burglary in the Second Degree case. I voted on the current version of this law when I was in the Hawaii State House of Representatives. The trial started on Monday, September 16, 2013 and ended today, Thursday, September 19, 2013 with a “guilty” verdict by the jury. From what Loren told me, Judge Edward Kubo asked my dad, “How often do you see Riki?” My dad answered, “Once a week, but he comes over more often when he’s hungry.” Everyone in the court laughed. During voir dire, Loren asked my dad, “So what’s the worse thing Jon Riki did?” Just before my dad could answer, Loren told him, “No, I’m just playing.” Everyone in the court laughed again.

For week 2, my fantasy football team in the Prosecutor’s League, 455+349 won for the second game in a row and is ranked 3rd out of 12, up from its 6th place ranking in week 1.

455+349 (2-0, 242.98 points) edged BlkPajamaPrty (1-1, 266.22 points) 116.78 – 116.70 in a back-and-forth battle. They were led by Jamaal Charles who had 24.30 points and Peyton Manning who had 19.98. BlkPajamaPrty was the first to put up points and by Sunday was already out in front 18.20 – 0. That advantage slipped away after the early Sunday games and they trailed by 45.60. After the late Sunday games, the lead swung back the other way to 1.22. Thanks to 13.00 points from the San Francisco 49ers Defense, Sunday night ended with 455+349 on top.

After two days of trial on a child abuse case where the father punched his 13 year-old son over seven times and stabbed him at least three times with a lawn chair on his body, the jury returned a “not guilty” verdict on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 18, 2013. After talking with three members of the jury after the trial, I learned that they felt the discipline of a minor defense applied and they believed the father’s testimony saying that he used open handed backslaps and not closed fisted punches. My overall win-loss record in Domestic Violence Misdemeanor jury trials is now 2-3.