HRS §661-2
Court decides if you owe the state money
When you sue the state and the state says you owe it money, a judge, not a jury, will hear both sides. If the judge decides you do owe the state, the court will order you to pay.
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The statute, as written — Judgment against claimant when
Upon the trial of any cause in which any counterclaim or other demand is set up on the part of the State against any person making claim against the State, the court shall, without the intervention of a jury, hear and determine the claim or demand both for and against the State and claimant; and if upon the whole case it finds that the claimant is indebted to the State, it shall render judgment to that effect.
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