Schutter was then deployed to Vietnam, where he served at the Tây Ninh Combat Base, after an unsuccessful federal lawsuit that he filed to prevent his unit from being sent overseas.
[5] He was originally billeted to serve as a combat infantryman but was reclassified as a prison interrogator after the intervention of Patsy Mink and Morris Udall.
[4] Schutter began his career in the 1970s, representing underworld figures, victims of police misconduct, and some of Hawaii's most prominent criminal defendants.
[3] Schutter's first big case while at Lewis & Roca was defending the eccentric San Francisco millionaire William Thoresen and his wife who were facing federal firearms charges.
Schutter represented Randall Saito, a 21-year-old man who was charged with murdering a 29-year-old woman in front of Ala Moana Center parking lot in July 1979.
Schutter was the lead plaintiffs' attorney in the lawsuit against notorious grifter Sante Kimes after she was accused and convicted of keeping a large series of undocumented immigrants from Mexico as slaves in the 1980s.
[10] Schutter represented student athlete Terry Whitaker, who was suspended from the University of Hawaii football team without due process after an off-campus altercation.
Its ten-member board included Wallace Fujiyama, a member of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents; Mufi Hanneman, a special assistant to then-Hawaii Governor George Ariyoshi; Dr. Gregory Mark, chairman of Chaminade University's criminal justice department; Ah Quon McElrath, a labor activist; Wayne Matsuo, an educational specialist; Tom Naki, a member of the prosecutors' office; Marc Oley, a criminal justice planner and retired Honolulu police officer; Julianne Puzon, a staffer in the Governor's office; Rev.
[4] Mike Keller, the executive director of the Schutter Foundation, criticized the Hawaii police and prosecution services, claiming that their 94% conviction rate was misleading and asserted that reforms were needed of the prosecutors' office to improve outcomes for crime victims.
foot beachfront mansion in Kahala Avenue (Honolulu) was sold to a new owner, who planned to demolish it, thus ending the legacy of David C.