Hawaii Courts Accountability Files | Oahu Underground

Oahu Underground Investigations

Primary Event Accounts

Event	Start here
Hartmann threat, Stanley’s response, and departure concept	The Threat Report
Kwak’s testimony, diagram, and mock-pistol closing	The Hypothetical Gun
Retained counsel, chambers, and plea pressure	The Defense Table Went Quiet
December 2, 2022 courtroom sequence	The Nod
Wider hearing and subsequent reporting	Wilson Loo overview

Reporter background — Disclosures: Before the Tax Office supplies the pre-prosecution chronology and Hartmann-threat background. It is not evidence for the December 2, 2022 courtroom sequence.

The Information Trail examines possible relationships among these events. Mechanisms of Review Failure supplies general comparisons. The event files remain the sources for what happened; other portfolios require their own evidence.

Case File Index

Hawaii Courts and Accountability

Start with the primary event accounts, then follow the counsel, legal, and theory articles for the questions each record can answer.

Hearing and Review

The Wilson Loo Review Path

Start with The Nod for the short account, then The Two Questions for ways to test it. The Loo overview holds the hearing and reporting history; The Reporting Duty provides the full legal analysis.

Editorial

The Nod: A Firsthand Courtroom Account

A firsthand visual report involving Judge Wilson Loo, plus the sealed audio sequence that can test the timing, answer, attempted record statement, and cutoff.

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Investigative Triage

The Two Questions: How One Interview Could Test the Wilson Loo Case

A records-first action memo: one witness, two lines of questioning, sealed audio, court-file review, and factual questions a standard review could confirm or refute.

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Broken scales, an hourglass and a revolving door depict the 90-day post-service jurisdiction limit that foreclosed renewed review.

Judicial Accountability

Wilson Loo: Hearing and Oversight in Hawaiʻi

A review of Loo’s handling of harassment evidence, police responses, sealed-record access, and judicial-oversight dispositions.

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Legal Analysis

The Reporting Duty

A legal analysis of HRPC 8.3(b), counsel’s actual knowledge, confidentiality, and institutional incentives affecting reports of judicial misconduct.

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Legal Analysis

The Lawyer in the Room

What did Bosko Petricevic perceive and understand, and did Hawaii’s judicial-misconduct reporting rule require him to act?

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Companion Letter

An Open Letter to Bosko Petricevic, Esq.

A public letter asking Bosko Petricevic what he perceived, understood, and did, including any report under Hawaii Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3(b).

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Trial and Counsel Record

Professional Responsibility

Public-interest reporting on trial advocacy and counsel handling.

Editorial reconstruction of a prosecutor making a two-handed mock-pistol gesture toward twelve jurors during closing argument, with a symbolic gun-shaped shadow.

Professional Responsibility

The Hypothetical Gun: The Closing-Argument Record

Ekewaka Lono examines Kwak’s charging and trial accounts, recordings omitted at trial, the booth diagram, and Kanemoto’s mock-pistol closing.

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Editorial illustration of two case-file folders, a communication log, and a branching record trail representing a death-threat report concerning defense investigation and a later leave-Hawaiʻi proposal

Professional Responsibility

The Threat Report: A Death Threat During Defense Investigation — and Counsel’s Dismissive Response

Ekewaka Lono’s account of a death threat he understood as pressure to stop his defense investigation and disclosure, counsel Audrey Stanley’s dismissive response, and a later tentative proposal involving departure from Hawaiʻi.

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Editorial illustration of an empty defense table in a Hawaiʻi courtroom, with legal pads, case files, law books, and the judge’s bench beyond.

Trial Record Audit

The Defense Table Went Quiet

Lono paid for a jury trial and refused a plea. After the mock-pistol closing and chambers conference, counsel kept pressing a petty-misdemeanor plea. The article examines his preparation, advice, and possible conflicts over retrial.

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Oversight Failure

Judicial Discipline and Self-Investigation

Local oversight, jurisdictional windows, special-prosecutor authority, and the review mechanisms that failed to produce a public merits finding.

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The Closed Loop

The Zero Commission

Public records map Hawaii's Commission on Judicial Conduct appointment structure, complaint processing, confidentiality rules, and reported outcomes in Closed Loop Part I.

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The Closed Loop

The Paper Bag and the Architecture of Self-Investigation

The Attorney General’s 2024 and 2026 statements on special counsel, the July indictment, and the limits of investigating officials within the same administration.

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Series

The Closed Loop

Articles on the Hawaii Commission on Judicial Conduct, Attorney General, and SIPD examine who conducts oversight, what records are public, and how complaints and investigations end.

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Local Accountability Context

Review and Process Context

Supplementary context and a short guide to the event files. Mechanisms of Review Failure is a general reference; it is not evidence for a particular case.

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Federal Referral

Federal Triage: The Wilson Loo Referral

The Wilson Loo referral, acknowledged receipt, federal legal requirements, and records needed to learn what review occurred.

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Lead Investigation

The Review Gap

Ekewaka Lono examines how police handling, sealed evidence, and a judicial-oversight deadline left his complaints unresolved.

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Case File Guide

Hawaii Accountability Gaps: Case File Guide

A short guide to the primary event accounts, counsel questions, police records, and judicial-oversight files in the Hawaii Courts archive.

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Structural Analysis

Mechanisms of Review Failure

A mechanism library for sealed records, stigma, complaint routing, and oversight closure after primary evidence is assembled.

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Open Investigation

The Information Trail

What participants knew, how information may have traveled, and which records could test the explanations.

An ongoing investigation connecting the reported sequence, actor information states, competing explanations, and the records needed to test them.

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