Joseph Kahawai pleaded guilty in Circuit Court to manslaughter on Monday in the 2013 death of 51-year-old Janine Meyer.

Kahawai was arrested on suspicion of murder in 2013, two weeks after Meyer’s body was discovered in a trash bin outside a Waikiki apartment.

With the approval of Meyer’s family, the prosecutor’s office agreed to allow Kahawai to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on the condition that he serve the full 20 years in prison without the possibility of parole, work furlough or early release. He was originally charged with second-degree murder.

Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 1.