The Japanese court overturned the convictions of two men who were found guilty of robbery after the 1967-murder after spending nearly three decades in prison.
The Sozi Sakourai and Sougkigiama Takas, 64 years and two acquitted on re-trial for murder and robbery of
Soten Tamamoura home province Imparaki.
The judge Naisouke Cada said in its ruling that no objective evidence to link the defendants to the crime.
The two men were arrested in October 1967, was indicted in December of that year and sentenced to life in 1970. The conviction was based mainly on confessions given by the Sakourai Sougkigiama and during their detention and the testimony of eyewitnesses.
In the original trial the two men had pleaded not guilty and claimed that police had forced them to confess the crime.
The two men were released on bail in 1996 and is the seventh time since 1945 that acquitted in Japan of people who were sentenced to life imprisonment or capital punishment resumed in the trial.
Posted by 9MOHAMED0 on Wednesday June 1, 2011
No comments:
Post a Comment