Hawaii only allows "no bail" for death penalty, life in prison and similarly serious cases (HRS 832-14, 15, 16) and the judge has great discretion. The attorneys debated in the hearing whether the Idaho felonies meet the standard of serious crimes in Hawaii. They agreed they translate roughly as class B felonies based on the potential prison time (10 years max in Hawaii). B felonies in Hawaii typically get a bail of about $10,000. This was all argued in the hearing.
Here is some information about bail in Hawaii:
https://acluhawaii.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/aclu-of-hawaii-bail-report.pdf
"Like the U.S. Constitution, the Hawai‘i Constitution prohibits “excessive bail” but does not guarantee an absolute right to bail in all cases. In this context, the Supreme Court of Hawai‘i has stated that “bail is not excessive merely because [an] arrestee is unable to pay it, ‘but he is entitled to an opportunity to make it in a reasonable amount.’” In Sakamoto v. Won Bae Chang, the Hawai‘i Supreme Court held that where the state failed to show a likelihood of conviction of murder in the first degree, where the trial court found the arrestee to be “not [a] man of means,” and where there was no evidence presented that indicated that the arrestee would not be present for future proceedings, a bail set at $300,000 violated the state constitutional provision prohibiting excessive bail. The Supreme Court ultimately reduced the bail to $100,000. The Supreme Court of Hawai‘i has also interpreted Article I Section 12 as protecting against unreasonable or arbitrary denial of bail.
Judges cannot infer from the arrestee’s criminal indictment alone a need for bail in an unusually high amount, such as in Sakamoto, where bail was set at $300,000 because of the arrestee’s murder charge. Such acts are deemed arbitrary."
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In summary, even $300,000 has been deemed by the Hawaii Supreme Court to be excessive even for a murder charge in Hawaii.
