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LUM: - -We don't know there's no way we can know anything like that. <br />COLE: The letter is dated 28 Lincoln Ashida states, he calls attention to in fact a draft <br />letter dated 28 August. Okay, a draft letter - -is not a draft letter a pre - letter? Okay. <br />Enclosed okay, the letter was provided by the Corporation Counsel in response to an <br />official request by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, indicating that the letter itself had <br />been generated and was being offered as proof ofMr. Ashida's having no knowledge <br />whatsoever prior to August the 10`h of that year of any knowledge of the Police's action. <br />However that letter, with all of its misspelling, identically word for word and period, <br />somehow got brought back in time under the signature of Lawrence Mahuna. <br />CHAIR: I understand what you're saying <br />COLE: --More than hypothetical. <br />GENTRY: I have questions, Mr. Chair. <br />CHAIR: Hold on, hold on, yeah, just a second. I just want to point out that we're not <br />here to vote on whether or not- -what the level of knowledge was on Corp Counsel's part. <br />You're clearly stating that you feel that Mr. Ashida gave directives to the County of <br />Hawai `i Police Department to take no action, correct? <br />COLE: Okay, you have requested <br />CHAIR: --No, no, answer my question. That's exactly what you're specifically saying, <br />your claiming, right? <br />COLE: Would you please restate that? <br />CHAIR: That in your petition, you state that Corp Counsel Ashida authorized <br />authorized a legal opinion requested by and rendered to the Hawai `i County Police <br />Department to take, quote unquote, no action on a criminal complaint filed against him. <br />We're not all I'm trying to say is we're not hereto kind of advise and calculate exactly <br />what the level of knowledge was on the Corp Counsel's part. We want to see if there was <br />some sort of what you're claiming action to take no action directive towards the <br />Police Department, correct? <br />COLE: Yes. <br />CHAIR: Okay. <br />COLE: I will clarify that for you. <br />CHAIR: Okay. <br />COLE: As I stated before, the fact that a legal opinion was rendered means it is a legal <br />opinion of Lincoln S. T. Ashida, Corporation Counsel, no matter who rendered it. In <br />27 <br />