any decent lawyer worth his salt ought to be able to suck that $290K right out of that perp.

Also, its prosecutors call throwing sulfuric acid in someone’s face “Assault.”

The victim here has been blinded in one eye and suffered burns requiring skin grafts.

He’s in critical condition!

The perp is charged with Assault A, a class B felony.  Other class B felonies are: first-degree theft, first-degree burglary, bribery, etc.

So the charges here are no where near the severity of the crime - not even in the same time zone.

Hawaii is an aggressively hostile state with respect to the interests of its lawful citizens.

Meanwhile, it seems the defending against acid attacks is a thing here now.

Work on your draw from concealment.

At least the victim knows he can sue for a couple hundred grand now. 

And he can garnish any government payments the perp was living on.  He won't need that money except for a small deposit to his prison commissary account.

Don't confuse the acid attack with his 2020 civil rights case. The guy is mental.

If grifting assholes like Marquis Johnson can use a chemical like Sulfuric acid on other people, and that attack can be classified as assault; then the State should make the CC of Less lethal launchers with chemical rounds 100% legal, statewide

I can imagine these "pepper balls" are not likely cause nearly as much damage to another person the same way sulfuric acid does as referenced here.

The victim here has been blinded in one eye and suffered burns requiring skin grafts.

The ATF does not consider these launchers to be firearms, so why not legalize them. If facing these acid attacks is a new reality then we need chemical weapon options, besides pepper spray and blast sticks, as well if you won't let us shoot these deadbeats dead in the streets!

Don't confuse the acid attack with his 2020 civil rights case. The guy is mental.

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not confusing anything.

"The federal civil rights suit was settled for $290,000 and was approved by the Honolulu City Council in June 2025."

"The man accused of throwing acid on a pedestrian in Chinatown on Aug. 8..."

The latest crime (that we know of) was approximately 2 months after the settlement was reached.

If i was the acid victim's lawyer, I'd try to get an injunction of some kind on that settlement money until a civil trial can conclude. As a tax payer whose money was partly used to settle, i would feel much better if a man like the attacker walked away broke and his victim received every cent of the $290K settlement.  Assuming 1/3 went to lawyers, it should still be over $193K.

In a perfect world, that $290K would be frozen and unavailable to pay lawyers in the acid case.  But then we tax payers foot the bill for a public defender.  it's like the people paying the bills never can get a break, and the system just keeps on churning.

Imagine if they got the wrong guy and the lawsuit he will file.

Imagine if they got the wrong guy and the lawsuit he will file.

The suspect asked the victim questions before splashing acid in his face.  Tells me the victim got a good look at the attacker.

"Less than two weeks later, Johnson was arrested after turning himself in
to the main police station, where he was taken into custody for first-degree
assault. He was formally charged on Aug. 20."

I have to wonder if it was a situation where the man's attorney from the misconduct case was communicating with police, and the lawyer negotiated for the suspect to turn himself in to avoid another claim of misconduct.

I imagine most people who turn themselves in either know the cops have an arrest warrant for them -- based on something like a positive ID by the victim, witnesses, cameras in the area, etc. -- or they have no warrant and they wanted to take responsibility.  My guess is there was a warrant, and the man's attorney was contacted to locate him for police to arrest him.

Just guessing, of course.  It would be nice if the reporters asked these questions for the public so we had the whole story and not just what was in a press release.

We keep giving and giving
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/08/29/man-who-received-125m-city-settlement-sentenced-gun-drug-offenses/

We keep giving and giving
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/08/29/man-who-received-125m-city-settlement-sentenced-gun-drug-offenses/

“I mean, this is a case where the experts say my client will never work again
the rest of his life. He’s got three children, minors, kids, young kids. He’ll
never be able to participate in anything they do, ever, they’re gonna want to
take care of their father. So we wanted to make sure that he had quality of
life,” said Attorney Michael Green who’s representing Perkins-Sinapati.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/03/26/125m-settlement-reached-victim-near-fatal-makaha-crash-involving-4-officers/

He supposedly can't work, can't participate in his kids' lives, and has to be cared for by his family his whole life.   Now, instead of living off the lawsuit proceeds, he'll be soaking taxpayers for even more money as he copped to a 10-year prison plea deal.

if I were the state, I'd drag his ass before a judge and request that lawsuit settlement be modified.  They need to subtract the 10 years of not being able to work, 10 years of not participating in his kids' lives and 10 years of his family having to care for him from the settlement.  I'm sure he'll still have plenty to spend at the commissary.

He changed the situation on which the settlement was based.  He should refund 10 years worth to the tax payers.