HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The latest episode of Hawaii News Now’s investigative podcast, The Other Side of Paradise, details a $3.25 million settlement between the state of Hawaiʻi and the three surviving siblings of Peter Boy Kema.
The agreement, reached in August 2026, resolves an eight-year civil wrongful death lawsuit filed in 2018. Host Lynn Kawano details how the settlement ends a decades-long legal fight over the 1997 death of the 6-year-old child and mandates a formal apology from the state.
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