COURTESY HPD This police mug shot shows Mitchel Yoshiji Miyashiro in 2018 after being arrested for driving without a license.
COURTESY HPD This police mug shot shows Mitchel Yoshiji Miyashiro in 2018 after being arrested for driving without a license.
The change of plea hearing scheduled this morning in the case against Mitchel Miyashiro, the driver charged in the hit-and-run death of a McKinley High School student, has been postponed.
Miyashiro pleaded not guilty after he was charged in December 2023 in the death of Sara Yara, 16, and injury of her schoolmate, who were walking in a crosswalk at the intersection of Kapiolani Boulevard of Kamakee Street on Feb. 15, 2023. He was scheduled to change his plea to guilty as charged on all counts this morning, according to court documents.
The court minutes Thursday said the plea was taken off today’s calendar and a possible plea change will “be rescheduled to a later date to be determined.”
Miyashiro, who was 45 at the time of the crash, had 164 prior traffic citations before his arrest in this case, many of them for driving without a driver’s license.
He was indicted on charges of first-degree negligent homicide, accident involving death /serious injury, accidents involving bodily injury and driving without a driver’s license.
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