A Native Hawaiian man who was convicted of a hate crime against a white man must be re-sentenced, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, potentially leading to additional years in prison.Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi was sentenced by a Honolulu judge in 2023 to six-and-a-half years after a jury found him and another Native Hawaiian man, Levi Aki Jr., guilty.The jury found the pair to be motivated by race when they punched, kicked and used a shovel to beat Christopher Kunzelman in 2014 for attempting to move into their remote village in Maui.Alo-Kaonohi appealed the conviction, and prosecutors cross-appealed, challenging the judge's





























