OSAKA (TR) – Prosecutors listed here are interesting a earlier ruling that acquitted a 30-year-old girl of murdering her rich husband, who was often known as the “Don Juan of Kishu,” experiences Mainichi Broadcasting System (Apr. 6).
Last month, the Osaka High Court acquitted Saki Sudo over the alleged homicide of her ex-husband, businessman Kosuke Nozaki, at his house in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, by administering a deadly dose of methamphetamine in May 2018.
On Monday, the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court because of being dissatisfied with the decision handed down in March.
In the first trial on the Wakayama District Court, Sudo maintained her innocence. Meanwhile the prosecution introduced circumstantial proof, together with that Sudo had looked for phrases like “methamphetamine death” on her smartphone.
Nozaki, aged 77 on the time of his loss of life, referred to as himself “Don Juan of Kishu.” In a number of books penned by Nozaki, he claimed to have slept with 4,000 ladies and offered them a complete of three billion yen in remuneration.
Prior to his loss of life, Nozaki ran a number of companies. His property is valued at 1.3 billion yen.
In upholding the primary ruling, the Osaka High Court acknowledged that the earlier ruling was “not unreasonable” in dismissing the prosecution’s enchantment.