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21 articles tagged “Hawaii”

The Hypothetical Gun: The Closing-Argument Record

A public accountability letter by Ekewaka Lono. Related reading: The Information Trail: Open Questions from 2015–2022 lists participant-knowledge questions and records that could test possible …

Before the Tax Office

A reporter-disclosure chronology and public accountability letter by Ekewaka Lono. Related reading: The Information Trail: Open Questions from 2015–2022 lists participant-knowledge questions and …

The Reporting Duty

What does HRPC 8.3(b) require when the lawyer best positioned to observe alleged judicial misconduct represents the witness who benefited from it? This article examines actual knowledge, …

The Lawyer in the Room

Related reading: The Information Trail: Open Questions from 2015–2022 lists participant-knowledge questions and records that could test possible connections. Bosko Petricevic represented the witness …

An Open Letter to Bosko Petricevic, Esq.

Mr. Petricevic, You were in the room on December 2, 2022. You represented ████████████ before Judge Wilson M.N. Loo. I saw Loo make a “no” head movement toward your sworn client before he answered. …

The Barrel

Historical-snapshot notice: The market prices, military developments, scenario weights, and “now” recommendations in this assessment refer to the March 8–13, 2026 reporting window. The October 8 page …

The Bridges

Part I of The Architecture of Access, examining documented PRC-facing institutional relationships and the safeguards attached to access. Documented relationships establish access points. They do not, …

Federal Triage: The Wilson Loo Referral

I filed a referral with the DOJ Public Integrity Section on July 12, 2025. DOJ acknowledged receipt. No further communication or investigative contact about that referral has been communicated to me. …

Mechanisms of Review Failure

When a complainant moves through multiple institutions and every channel closes, the most testable issues are procedural: what each institution did, what record it created, what it failed to review, …

The Paper Bag and the Architecture of Self-Investigation

In January 2024, Senate Bill 2107 reached the Senate Judiciary Committee. It proposed a new section in HRS Chapter 28 allowing the Attorney General to select outside special counsel for investigations …

The Closed Loop

Hawaii’s oversight bodies are often appointed by or work through the institutions they review. In this series, a “closed loop” means that appointments, information, and decisions …

The Zero Commission

There is a building in Honolulu where complaints can leave almost no public review trail. You would not know it from the outside. The Commission on Judicial Conduct operates behind confidentiality …

The Nod: A Firsthand Courtroom Account

The Courtroom Sequence The December 2, 2022 hearing in the First Circuit Court in Honolulu was recorded by audio only. I appeared pro se; Bosko Petricevic represented the redacted witness. The signal …

Cartography for Guppies

A publisher’s note from Ekewaka Lono I am one person with a laptop on the North Shore of Oʻahu, reading records produced by institutions that usually meet each other through closed processes: …

The Review Gap

HPD received my reports. The Commission on Judicial Conduct reported an insufficient-evidence disposition in 2023 and declined renewed review in 2025 under its former-judge jurisdiction rule. This …

Hawaii Accountability Gaps: Case File Guide

Sources and Scope This page is a guide to the case files. Each event has a primary article with its account, sources, and unanswered questions. The legal and theory articles use those accounts for …

Wilson Loo: Hearing and Oversight in Hawaiʻi

This overview follows the reports before the December 2, 2022 hearing, the court’s handling of my harassment evidence, and the oversight decisions afterward. Related investigation: The Information …