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In this Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019 photo, Hawaii Innocence Project co-director Kenneth Lawson, left, explains the case of a former U.S. soldier convicted of a 1982 murder, while University of Hawaii law student Alanna Wade looks through the legal file in Honolulu. The Hawaii Innocence Project says Clifford Hubbard didn’t commit those crimes and is asking a judge to order DNA testing, which wasn’t available at the time. In a motion filed Friday, Sept. 6, his lawyers say there's no direct evidence linking Hubbard to the 1982 suffocation of 14-year-old Derek Kusumoto. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

Ex-soldier serving life for teen’s ‘82 murder seeks DNA test

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

A pedestrian walks in front of the federal building housing U.S. District Court in Honolulu on Friday, March 7, 2014. A courtroom in this building s set to become the scene of a death penalty trial even though Hawaii abolished capital punishment in 1957. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Federal death penalty trial set to open in Hawaii

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press