841-3 does not mandate sworn statements. The passage you refer to is for people reporting a death that the coroner is not aware of. None of the witnesses in the crash had an obligation to report to the coroner because the police were on the scene. That’s why the penalty is only up to $100. Parking tickets in Maui can cost you more than that.
As for the coroner depending on witness statements, they do that all the time. Consider a traffic accident with a fatality. The police take witness statements. But they are not sworn statements. That doesn’t mean the coroner cannot considering them in their report.
AS to Dr. Harlin, we know that the Lanai crash involved a charter aircraft. Charter by the county for the five county employees. The County may have a standard budget item for chartering aircraft that all departments draw from. The Maui PD may not have budget item for such an expense.
YOu don’t charter a flight for one person.
And if she was flown in by ANY aircraft the attorney for Maui County - who was the one responding to my request on behalf of the MCPD - would not have said that to their knowledge there was nobody else who would have records either.
And you’re just maklng stuff up about HRS 841-3. Where does 841-3 stipulate that witnesses don’t have to report what they know about the circumstances of death if the police show up sometime after the death? The police were not on scene when Fuddy allegedly died; that’s why the witnesses who WERE there at the time would be needed - regardless of how the police first found out that there was a death.