There is no more State v. Thomas Russo. Maui County Prosecutor J. D. Kim’s five-year effort to punish MauiTime‘s publisher for photographing two Maui Police Officers back in November 2012 is finally over. Very long, stupid story short, Russo was coming down Haleakala Highway on the morning of Nov. 20, 2012 and encountered unusually heavy […]
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Hawaii Supreme Court to hear oral arguments this week in State v. Thomas A. Russo
This week the creaky but somehow still rolling miscarriage of justice known as The State of Hawaii v. Thomas A. Russo is going on the road–to the Big Island, to be exact. On Thursday, Nov. 9 at 10am, MauiTime Publisher Russo and his attorney Jake Lowenthal (he’s also represented by Phil Lowenthal and Samuel McRoberts) […]
Hawaii Supreme Court agrees to hear State of Hawaii v. Thomas A. Russo
In an effort to end the Maui County Prosecutor’s five-year campaign to bust MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo for photographing two Maui Police Officers on a public road (the county says he was “failing to comply” with the officers, but that’s BS to mask the fact that he was photographing cops on a public road), Russo’s […]
County Of Maui Appeals Kawano’s Ruling Throwing Out Criminal Case Against MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo
So remember a couple weeks ago when we ran this story saying District Court Judge Kelsey Kawano had thrown out the criminal case against MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo over his photographing Maui police officers two years ago because the cops didn’t have probable cause to arrest him in the first place? Well, that turned out to be […]
Judge Kelsey Kawano Ends Prosecution Of MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo–No Probable Cause
After nearly two years, Wailuku District Court Judge Kelsey Kawano has finally ended the travesty that was the case State of Hawaii v. Thomas Russo, the publisher of MauiTime. On Wednesday, July 9, Judge Kawano ruled that Maui Police Officers Rusty Lawson and John Fairchild had no probable cause to arrest Russo on Nov. 20, […]
The US Supreme Court Says Photography Is Not A Crime Yet Maui Police Pfficer Rusty Lawson Still Arrested MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo For Filming Operation Recon
On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 20, two Maui police officers arrested Thomas Russo, MauiTime’s owner and publisher, while he was attempting to film them with his cellphone camera during “Operation Recon,” a massive traffic enforcement operation carried out by the Maui PD during rush hour in which officers handed out pre-printed tickets to vehicles […]