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Near St. Paul’s Cathedral near the center of London stands a grand and majestic courthouse. The Old Bailey is considered the symbolic home of the British criminal justice system. It’s part of our shared legal heritage. The common law tradition a legal system based on the precedent of the cases before it was brought to the American colonies and independently planted here in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Unlike many historic courthouses, the one on Central Criminal Court is fully functional. And it began the year with a bombshell.
The case began in 2018 when the United States charged Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks a website disseminating classified documents and diplomatic cables revealing intelligence secrets with violating the Espionage Act. The problem was that Assange was in London.
HAWAII VIRUS TRACKER - Dec. 22: 66 New COVID-19 Cases - Honolulu Civil Beat
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Health officials reported 66 new COVID-19 cases statewide on Tuesday including 51 on Oahu, six on Hawaii island, seven on Maui, and two residents diagnosed out of state.
Many of the recent cases on Oahu have been associated with an outbreak at Halawa Correctional Facility. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Monday that the cases at Halawa will not affect any decision to return Oahu to the restrictive Tier 1 in its reopening strategy.
The Department of Health will continue to include cases at correctional facilities as part of its daily report, health officials told Civil Beat.
Updated 12/21/20, 11:55 a.m.
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell is repeating his request that inmate coronavirus cases not be included in Oʻahu s case count numbers.
The latest state Department of Health report adds one new death, and a total of 204 new infections statewide. 180 of those new cases were on Oʻahu.
During a Sunday press conference, Caldwell said DOH officials have unofficially told him that as many as 93 of the latest cases may have come from Halawa Correctional Facility.
Last week, Caldwell asked Governor David Ige to remove infected prisoners from the city s daily case tally. Caldwell says he recently discussed his request to Ige, but noted that the prison outbreak still has an impact on Oʻahu s healthcare system.