Waipahu Bob note: Yes, I did go to see the end of closing arguments yesterday. It was then handed over to the jury for deliberation. It was expected the jury would take several days to consider this complex case, but they took less than 24 hours (9 hours deliberation over two days). Civil Beat, an online news org, has provided the best and most comprehensive coverage of this trial. Here’s a clip from their site today, giving jury results, below:
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Jury Convicts Kealohas And 2 HPD Officers Of Conspiracy (By Nick Grube and Yoohyun Jung of Civil Beat, 27 June 2019)
Reference: https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/06/jury-convicts-kealohas-and-2-hpd-officers-of-conspiracy/
Honolulu’s former police chief and his prosecutor wife, along with two police officers, were found guilty Thursday in one of the biggest corruption cases in Hawaii history.
Jurors convicted four defendants Thursday in a Honolulu police corruption case involving allegations that former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his prosecutor wife, Katherine Kealoha, framed her uncle with the help of several officers in an attempt to settle a family score over money.
The jury found retired Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha, his wife, Katherine Kealoha, and HPD officers Derek Hahn and Minh-Hung “Bobby” Nguyen guilty of federal conspiracy charges after one and a half days of deliberation.
The defendants were also found guilty of obstruction of justice. All of them were acquitted of charges of lying to the FBI.
A fifth defendant, HPD officer Gordon Shiraishi, was found not guilty of all charges.
Waipahu Bob 