Native Hawaii man to be resentenced in hate crime against a white man he beat with a shovel

Source: New York Post

A native Hawaiian man serving time for brutally beating a white man with a shovel over a decade ago will be resentenced and could be hit with additional years in prison after his appeal of his hate crime conviction was rejected. Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 35, was originally sentenced to six-and-a-half years by a Honolulu judge alongside Levi Aki Jr, another Native Hawaiian man, after a jury found them both guilty of the hate-fueled violence in 2023. The court determined that the duo were motivated by Christopher Kunzelman’s race when they repeatedly beat him with a shovel in 2014 when he and his wife tried to move into their remote village in Maui.