Hawaiʻi

Hawaiʻi Supreme Court vacates 1990 rape conviction; justice’s opinion rebukes U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence

July 17, 2026 Iniulat ng AI Larawang ginawa ng AI Fact checked

The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, in an opinion issued Wednesday and authored by Associate Justice Todd Eddins, vacated Daniel R. Granillo’s 1990 Maui sexual-assault-related convictions after finding that now-discredited FBI hair-and-fiber testimony helped underpin the verdict.