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<p>A man who refused to speak English in court was due back in court Wednesday.</p>
<p>But Samuel Kaeo didn’t show up.</p>
<p>According to Judge Kelsey Kawano, several notices were sent to Kaeo
regarding his court date, but it appears he never received them.</p>
<p>“According to the records and files, the defendant has not received
notice of his requirement to be in court,” Kawano said. “The court will
instruct the prosecuting attorney’s office to issue a penal summons,
have that served upon the defendant, and we’ll set this for three weeks
to have that service done.”</p>
<p>Kaeo appeared in court last month to face charges from a protest. He
was arrested in connection with a protest last year on Haleakala and was
supposed to have a bench trial.</p>
<p>Although he can speak both English and Hawaiian, he requested a
Hawaiian language interpreter and refused to address the judge in
English.</p>
<p>“I’m going to give you another opportunity, Mr. Kaeo, to just
identify yourself just so the record is clear. I’m going to ask you one
last time, is your name Samuel Kaeo?” Judge Blaine Kobayashi asked on
Jan. 24.</p>
<p>Kaeo’s Hawaiian responses led Kobayashi to issue a bench warrant for
his arrest. Kobayashi’s reasoning: “The court is unable to get a
definitive determination for the record that the defendant seated in
court is Mr. Samuel Kaeo.”</p>
<p>The warrant was recalled the following day, but sparked much debate
over the acceptance and use of the Hawaiian language in court, and
whether it should have been handled differently.</p>
<p>“We have to put this in context. As a Hawaii person representing
myself on a criminal issue due to fighting on behalf of the rights of
Hawaiian people and using Hawaiian language is the best way to express
that this is a Hawaiian issue and that being taken away for me,” Kaeo
previously explained to KHON2. “I will continue to demand through my
words that I’ll be recognized as a human being, that we as Hawaiians
have a right for the human right to speak our language.”</p>
<p>That Friday, Jan. 26, the Hawaii State Judiciary announced a new
Hawaiian language interpreter policy that said, “The Judiciary will
provide or permit qualified Hawaiian language interpreters to the extent
reasonably possible when parties in courtroom proceedings choose to
express themselves through the Hawaiian language.”</p>
<p>An interpreter was present in court Wednesday, and will be at Kaeo’s next court date as well.</p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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