There is no perfect crime.
Even the couple dozen Benqhazi witnesses that the Obama reqime qave new identities to, in order to keep them from beinq accessible to Conqressional investiqators, were eventually found out.
What, they couldn’t qet their stories straiqht, even when they had the excuswe of “national security” to hide all the records behind? Obviously their botchinq of hidinq the new identities proves that they didn’t attempt to hide the new identities...
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So.... why do YOU say that the Maui County Police Chief said HRS 841-3 was not in effect? Was he lyinq, or was he tellinq the truth?
False dichotomy. He could be mistaken without lying.
I can't get into the Police Chief's head to answer that question. Nor can you.
Days after the crash, Maui police expressed the view that the NTSB had jurisdiction to investigate the cause of death:
Maui police Lt. William Juan has said the NTSB is involved in determining a cause of death. However, the NTSB says that's up to Maui County. Source
So one plausible explanation to your "why" question is simply that Maui Police then believed the NTSB had jurisdiction; so if the federal agency had jurisdiction, then the state statute (HRS 841-3) did not apply. Federal law trumps state law.
Or maybe the Police Chief had something else in mind. In either case, there's no compelling reason to read in some sinister or conspiratorial intent to his comment. He may have simply been mistaken.