Maui Second Circuit Judge Peter Cahill on Monday rejected a motion to suppress the recorded telephone conversations of a man accused of murdering a Maui police officer.

Clembert Kaneholani is charged with first-degree murder and other offenses in the Aug. 15 shooting death of Officer Suzanne O, who was killed in an ambush-style attack while searching a dark field for an armed suspect at the old Paia Sugar Mill off Baldwin Avenue.

Kaneholani’s attorney argued in a written motion that his client didn’t give police permission to record his client’s phone conversations from jail after the shooting.

However, the prosecution noted that before any telephone calls are made, those incarcerated are warned that their conversation is subject to being recorded or monitored, unless it’s a privileged conversation between a defendant and his or her attorney.

The prosecution alleges that during a jail telephone call, Kaneolani linked shooting Officer O to him wanting revenge on police for a restraining order that was issued days before the shooting and prevented Kaneholani from having contact with his wife and children.

“Right after, brah, that was it, brah. I wanted to take lives already. I wanted to take lives — these cops,” Kaneholani is quoted as saying in one of the telephone calls.

According to the prosecution, the calls show Kaneholani’s motive as he blamed police for taking his son away from him.

“I was going to shoot these f— over there at the house and have a shootout at the house,” he said.

Kaneholani’s trial is scheduled for June 1.