SHIZUOKA, Oct 09 (News On Japan) –
The prosecution has introduced that it’s going to not attraction the current ruling by the Shizuoka District Court, which acquitted Iwao Hakamada, who had been sentenced to demise for a 1966 homicide case involving a household of 4. This determination solidifies Hakamada’s acquittal.
In the case, which dates again to June 1966, the our bodies of 4 relations from a miso manufacturing firm in Shizuoka Prefecture have been found. Hakamada, now 88, was arrested and indicted, with the demise sentence confirmed in 1980. Hakamada, who maintained his innocence, was granted a retrial in 2014 and launched after almost 48 years in jail.
During the retrial, which began in October of final yr on the Shizuoka District Court, prosecutors as soon as once more sought the demise penalty, whereas the protection argued that investigators had fabricated a number of items of proof to border Hakamada. The courtroom sided with the protection, ruling on September 26 that among the proof used for conviction had certainly been fabricated, leading to Hakamada’s acquittal.
Naomi Unemoto, the prosecutor normal, issued a press release asserting the choice to not attraction, regardless of expressing issues over the Shizuoka courtroom’s ruling, which she described as “containing many problems” and “worthy of a higher court’s review.” However, she added that because of the extended and inconsistent judicial proceedings, Hakamada had endured important authorized uncertainty for an prolonged interval. After cautious deliberation, the prosecution concluded that additional extending this case by means of an attraction can be inappropriate.
Unemoto additionally issued an apology, stating: “As a key player in the criminal justice system, the prosecution deeply regrets that Hakamada was subjected to such prolonged legal instability.”
The prosecution additionally introduced its intention to conduct an inside evaluate of why the retrial course of had taken such an in depth interval.
Source: ANN