Liberal circuit judge blasts SCOTUS conservatives, says Hawaii will defy high court

A Hawaii Supreme Court justice used a ruling overturning a decades-old criminal conviction to deliver a blistering rebuke of Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court, accusing the nation's highest court of weakening constitutional rights, damaging democracy and advancing a political agenda. Justice Todd Eddins authored the 91-page majority opinio n Wednesday in State v. Granillo , a case involving a man convicted in 1990 of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman on Maui . The court ordered