ROH §4-4.10
Witness rights to a lawyer and asking questions
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section gives witnesses at an investigating committee hearing the right to bring their own lawyer for advice. It also lets witnesses or their lawyers suggest questions for the committee to ask, but the committee only has to ask questions that fit the hearing's topic.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Right to counsel and submission of questions
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Every witness at a hearing of an investigating committee may be accompanied by counsel of such person’s own choosing, who may advise the witness as to such person’s rights, subject to reasonable limitations that the committee may prescribe to prevent obstruction of or interference with the orderly conduct of the hearing.
(b) Any witness at a hearing, or such person’s counsel, may submit to the committee proposed questions to be asked of the witness or any other witness relevant to the matters upon which there has been any questioning or submission of evidence, and the committee shall ask such of the questions as are appropriate to the subject matter of the hearing.
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