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TexasTowelie

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Sun Nov 17, 2019, 12:22 AM Nov 2019

Judge Allows Katherine Kealoha's Private Attorney To Withdraw

One of Katherine Kealoha’s attorneys is officially dropping off the case.

U.S. District Court Judge J. Michael Seabright granted Honolulu attorney Earle Partington‘s motion to withdraw during a hearing Friday.

Kealoha is also represented by court-appointed attorney Gary Singh, who was in charge of two federal criminal cases involving bank fraud and drug trafficking charges. She pleaded guilty to three felonies in those cases.

Partington came in late during Kealoha’s first trial on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges. A 12-member jury found Kealoha, along with her husband, ex-Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and two Honolulu police officers, guilty of framing her uncle for a crime he didn’t commit — the theft of a mailbox — to gain an advantage in a civil dispute.

Read more: https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/judge-allows-katherine-kealohas-private-attorney-to-withdraw/

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