Kanela, we got your back! Listen to your lawyer, i hope you get one good one. You just became the next young working class man to be be criminalized for a simple violation. Failure to appear in court because he was waiting for a piece a mail saying when his court date was. If you never get it, a warrant is issued for your arrest. I know cause this happened to me in NYC for a moving violation, and it happens to young men of modest means all the time. 

For you Civil Beat readers, read this Maui Time article:
http://mauitime.com/news/politics/south-maui-rep-kaniela-ing-deals-with-traffic-bench-warrant-after-mauitime-inquiry/

His car was vandalized (wires pulled), and he was working on the car on the street. It was disabled and let the insurance lapse because it wasn't being driven. He was ticketed for no insurance. Wow, menace to society!

Now i know why he is an effective representative, he knows his constituency because he is one of us! Aloha!