UNHINGED: Far-Left Hawaii Supreme Court Issues Disgraceful Attack On SCOTUS – Calls Roberts Court Racist, Treats Landmark Rulings as “White Noise,” Declares Itself Beyond Federal Instruction
The radical left-wing takeover of our judiciary has reached a terrifying new low.
In a shocking and utterly unhinged ruling issued on Wednesday, the Hawaii Supreme Court has launched a direct, disgraceful assault on the United States Supreme Court.
In the case of Granillo v. State of Hawaii, authored by activist Associate Justice Todd Eddins, the rogue state court went completely off the rails.
In May 1989, Daniel R. Granillo was accused of abducting Laura Price (a pseudonym) from a Maui shopping center parking lot after her boyfriend abandoned her. Price testified that Granillo grabbed her, held a knife to her neck, drove her to the Kahului breakwater, and sexually assaulted her, forcing oral sex and digital penetration. She escaped by jumping from the moving car, flagged down help, and was found hysterical, dirty, with messy hair and later bruises on her face, thigh, and arm.
Granillo was convicted in July 1990 on kidnapping, two counts of first-degree sexual assault, and attempted first-degree sexual assault. He received 40 years. The prosecution’s case rested heavily on Price’s testimony, but they bolstered it with “uncontroverted physical evidence” from FBI hair and fiber expert Wayne Oakes.
Oakes testified that a hair found in Granillo’s car was “consistent with” coming from Price and had been forcibly removed. Fibers from Price’s underwear and pants were “consistent with” Granillo’s car seat cover and floor carpet. The prosecution hammered this in closing: physical evidence proved Price was in the car with her pants on, then off, while Granillo assaulted her. The jury convicted.
For decades, this was standard, accepted forensic science. Courts across America, including Hawaii’s own precedent in State v. Fukusaku (1997), treated microscopic hair and fiber comparison as reliable.
In 2017, the DOJ notified Hawaii prosecutors that the FBI had reviewed old cases and found Oakes’ testimony overstated the science. The 2009 National Research Council report and 2016 PCAST report had concluded that microscopic hair and fiber analysis can only provide class-level associations — not individual identification. No more “consistent with originating from” a specific person to the exclusion of others.
Granillo filed a post-conviction petition. The Hawaii Supreme Court didn’t just apply normal standards. It created/expanded a broad “false evidence” rule under the state constitution’s due process clause, held that prosecutorial knowledge of the falsity isn’t required, found a “reasonable possibility” the testimony contributed to conviction, and ordered a new trial.
The left-wing majority used their official state opinion to paint the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court as literal enemies of constitutional rights and presumptive racists.
This is a complete breakdown of the rule of law.