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R f To the Hawaii County Council County Building -Hilo Hawaii ~ r From Henry A. Ross - Kapaau ~V 'v Vt ~ ~ _ ~ ' ; „ , Re: Yo r Comm. No. 564. n s d of o n r outside tawvers to defend the oolice in civil law suit 9752 HAND-DELIVERED: 24 November 1997 1 AM VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED TO SPENDING PUBLIC MONEY, an estimated $150,000 FOR THE DEFENSE OF POLICE IN A POLICE BRUTALITY CASE, that will be presented to you by Dep.Corporation Counsel Joseph Kamelamela, in executive session, as a conflict of interest case, which it is not. 3 local prosecutors who are intimately connected with the police in this case will be defended by Corporation Counsel (CC) and if they do not constitute a conflict with the County and the Mayor, who are also Defendants in the suit, then neither do the police. 1 submit that if you decide that there IS a conflict for the police and not for the prosecutors, the police must be referred to SHOPO for legal services. As far as the statute is concerned, specifically Section 52D-9 HRS, which mandates that the decision of the Police Commission shall be conclusive (for providing legal repre- sentation to the county police), I want to refer to item 16 of my sworn declaration filed in court on 14 Nov.`97, of which copies were served on all of you individually on the same date and which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.. For reasons stated therein that section of the statute is unconstitutional. But what is worse, the Police Commission went illegally into exe- cutive session with unrecorded deliberations on this subject, after conspiring with the police as they always do to keep it secret, because providing money for the defense of police in civil matters is NOT among the 6 reasons why they may convene an executive session, as are allowed by Section 92-5 HRS, the Sunshine Law, to which it is subject. A copy of HRS 92-5 with the six reasons is attached as Exhibit B. It would appear that this is corruption. From previously submitted documents, such as copies of my sworn complaint to the Police Commission of 13 November 1995, the County Council is aware that I was arrested 2 years ago in what is popularly known as the "cough drop case", for being falsely accused by Kalani Schutte's granddaughter of physical harassment when she was a cashier in the KTA Super Market in Kamuela, while in fact it was she who attacked me. The Police Commission had the case investigated but refused to grant me a contested case hearing which was indi- cated in this case pursuant to Section 91-14 Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), the decision of which is nwr pYpnding before the Supreme Court in appeal as is the criminal case against me and yet Esther case for Quo Warranto because the County Prosecuting Attorney, who dis- qualified his office from the criminal case, then illegally called in the Honolulu Prosecutor to handle the fake charges. t also filed for a Writ of Prohibition in the Supreme Court against Judge Jeffrey Choi for not disqualifying himself while he admitted on the record that ha was a friend of Barry Taniguchi, the President of KTA and sits on the same school board with i and also for selling his fish catch as a commercial fisherman to KTA. Judge Choi invented a~ ~ c~ » 6~1. r,3. Rer. iY~tE: 4 1997