A mistrial was declared on Thursday in a messy mailbox theft case involving Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife’s estranged uncle.
While on the witness stand, Kealoha said that the defendant, Gerard Puana, had a prior arrest for breaking into his neighbor’s house.
Puana’s attorney, Alexander Silvert, immediately called for a mistrial and said that revealing that detail could prejudice the jury by “completely destroying” Puana’s credibility.
It’s not uncommon for defense attorneys to fight to keep a client’s prior bad acts from being revealed during a
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