That’s according to Senate Resolution 12, whose chief sponsors are Sam Slom and Russell Ruderman with Roz Baker, Ron Kouchi, Laura Thielen and Glenn Wakai as co-introducers.

Roger Christie is the Hilo resident who has spent the past several years at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu awaiting trail on marijuana charges.

SR 12 reads in part as follows:

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, we believe the treatment of Reverend Roger Christie by the Federal authorities to be illegal and unconstitutional; and

      BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call upon the President of the United States to uphold the law of the land, in accordance with his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, by instructing the US Bureau of prisons, and any other Federal entity charged with the incarceration of the Reverend Roger Christie, that Mr. Christie is to be immediately released; and

      BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call upon the President of the United States to initiate a formal investigation into the conduct of Federal law enforcement personnel in regard to the violation of the Reverend Christie’s constitutional rights, with a goal to determine if any individuals may be held civilly and/or criminally liable for his illegal detention. …