Suspects in 2017 murder to be tried together
OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) Two suspects connected with a brutal murder on Oahu’s North Shore will be tried together instead of separate trials.
Stephen Brown, 26, and Hailey Kai Dandurand, 23, are charged with kidnapping, burglary and second-degree murder of 51-year-old Sunset Beach teacher Telma Boinville in December 2017.
Brown and Dandurand appeared in court Friday before Judge Rowena Somerville. Both the state prosecutor and Dandurand’s attorney requested separate trial but were denied for “the public interest in efficient use of juridical time,” according to court minutes.
The court agreed that each case had the same evidence and number of witnesses and did not want to subject Boinville’s minor daughter–the only witness to the crime– to testify at two trials.
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