The retrial of Iwao Hakamada (88), who was sentenced to death for robbery-murder and other crimes for the murder of four members of the family of the managing director of a miso manufacturing company in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, was handed down on the 26th at the Shizuoka District Court, with presiding Judge Tsuneshi Kunii handed down a not guilty verdict (the prosecution had called for the death penalty). This is the fifth case since the end of the war in which a defendant has been acquitted in a retrial after the death penalty was finalized. The focus now shifts to whether the prosecution will appeal, but the acquittal, handed down 58 years after the incident and nearly 44 years after the death sentence was finalized, is likely to have an impact on the structure of the retrial system. At the retrial, the biggest point of contention was whether the “five pieces of clothing” found inside a miso tank at the factory about one year and two months after the incident were the clothes worn in the crime. The defense argued that DNA analysis of the bloodstains on the short-sleeved shirt showed that the five pieces of clothing did not belong to Hakamada. Based on the results of an expert analysis which stated that bloodstains that had been soaked in miso for over a year would not remain red, the defendant argued that “it is extremely unnatural for the bloodstains on the ’five pieces of clothing’ to remain red,” and claimed innocence, saying that “the evidence was fabricated by the investigative authorities.” The prosecution argued that the bloodstains on the short-sleeved shirt closely resembled the areas of Hakamada’s injuries, indicating that it was the shirt that Hakamada was wearing at the time of the crime. Regarding the defense’s analysis of the change in color of the bloodstains, the court stated that there was insufficient consideration of factors such as the oxidation rate, which affects the color, and called for the death penalty, saying, “There is no reasonable doubt that (Hakamada) hid the blood in the miso tank.” Hakamada’s death sentence was finalized in 1980. In a retrial on remand for the second request for retrial, the Tokyo High Court in March last year acknowledged the credibility of the defense’s experimental results, which showed that the redness of bloodstains that have been soaked in miso for more than a year would disappear, and decided to open a retrial. Current affairs Previous thread 58 years after Hakamada was found not guilty, Shizuoka District Court seeks death penalty in retrial [Dodon★]
>>10 Maximum 12,500 yen per day In this case, you can expect to receive the full amount 365 days x 58 years x 12,500 = 2,646,250,000 This is the amount you will definitely receive It will increase if you sue for state compensation, etc.
The Minister of Justice has the authority to direct the prosecution, and the Prime Minister has the power to dismiss the Minister of Justice, so if the prosecution appeals, the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party will be held responsible, and we should hold him accountable in the general election.
>>19 You were killed out of nowhere and accused of a crime you didn’t commit (and the police are definitely fabricating evidence to try to sentence you to death, even though you’re innocent). Which do you think is happier, being incarcerated on death row for 58 years for some worthless reason (to save face) or a life of bliss?
If the government or the judiciary had confidence in the crime, they would have carried out the execution immediately. It was a ridiculous plan from the start. I wonder if the real culprit is dead already.
Could this have been a false accusation? The house of the detective who was investigating the case at the time was burned down in a suspicious fire, and so things are dark.
Even if he goes to the high court and wins an acquittal, the compensation trial will go through the district court and then the high court, right? Will it end at 100 years old?
It seems odd that the person who fabricated the evidence wasn’t charged with a crime. I think fabricating evidence is a serious crime, and if the sentence was carried out, it would have been murder. I’m sure the people involved in the investigation know who committed this terrible crime. People are really scary.
To begin with, the trousers were too small for Hakamada to wear, right? I’m sure there were a lot of other things that were unnatural so I want them all to be revealed It was even featured in the documentary.
>>38 The prosecution resisted and delayed it. There are multiple processes through which the prosecution can file objections before the retrial begins.
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