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Kealoha Trial: Closing Arguments Could Come As Soon As Tuesday Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Kealoha Trial: Closing Arguments Could Come As Soon As Tuesday

The defense rests after three days of testimony, and prosecutors plan to call a few more rebuttal witnesses.

Kealoha Corruption Trial Nears End As Defense Attorneys Wrap Up Their Cases Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Kealoha Corruption Trial Nears End As Defense Attorneys Wrap Up Their Cases

UPDATED: Katherine Kealoha’s defense rests Wednesday without her taking the stand.

Denby Fawcett: The Kealohas’ Trial Strategy — Dressing For Success In The Courtroom Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Denby Fawcett: The Kealohas’ Trial Strategy — Dressing For Success In The Courtroom

Legal experts evaluate the tactic of coordinated outfits and public displays of affection.

Katherine Kealoha Gets Second Defense Lawyer Late In Trial Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Katherine Kealoha Gets Second Defense Lawyer Late In Trial

Earle Partington joins the former’s prosecutor’s defense team in her public corruption trial.

Kealoha Trial: ‘A Conspiracy Is A Living, Breathing Thing’ Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2018

Kealoha Trial: ‘A Conspiracy Is A Living, Breathing Thing’

Prosecutors wrap up their case. Then the defense calls to the witness stand one of the alleged co-conspirators who already pleaded guilty.

Kealoha Trial Resumes: Now You Can See What The Jury’s Been Looking At Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Kealoha Trial Resumes: Now You Can See What The Jury’s Been Looking At

The trial took a break last week. That gave the court a chance to release some of the exhibits prosecutors have presented to the jury.

Louis Kealoha Wants City Taxpayers To Pay More Of His Legal Bills Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

Louis Kealoha Wants City Taxpayers To Pay More Of His Legal Bills

The former Honolulu police chief faces a series of federal charges related to corruption and abuse of power.

Kealoha Trial: Prosecutors Zero In On Defendant’s Memory Lapses Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Kealoha Trial: Prosecutors Zero In On Defendant’s Memory Lapses

Jurors hear audio clips of the grand jury testimony of one of the three officers on trial for allegedly helping the police chief and his prosecutor wife frame a man for stealing their mailbox.

Ex-City Ethics Director: When We Got Close The Kealohas Fought Back Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Ex-City Ethics Director: When We Got Close The Kealohas Fought Back

Chuck Totto testifies about how he was retaliated against for investigating the Kealohas long before they came to the attention of federal prosecutors.

Jury: No Excessive Force In Sheldon Haleck’s Death Submitted

Jury: No Excessive Force In Sheldon Haleck’s Death

UPDATED: He died hours after police officers used a Taser and pepper spray on him while responding to a disorderly conduct call.