HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A decision by the state’s highest court means changes are coming for criminal investigations in Honolulu.

Hawaii Supreme Court justices overturned the Intermediate Court of Appeals decision in issuing this opinion last week.

Police departments in Hawaii are now required to use video and audio recordings of all interrogations done at police stations if the suspect is under arrest.

“It ensures that people are not wrongfully convicted based on false, inaccurate, misleading testimony by police officers,” said Jongwook “Wookie” Kim, legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.

ACLU Hawaii submitted an amicus brief ahead of the decision.

The original case is out of Kona from October 2021. Charles Zuffante was interrogated at the station about dr

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