STORY: "Court to decide whether to retry a case from 1979 on March 6, 2013 - Ohsaki case," by Kana Sasakura, published on March 4, 2013. (Thanks to the Wrongful Convictions Blog for drawing attention to this important case).
GIST: "The Kagoshima District Court will decide whether to open a retrial
for a 34-year-old case (so called Ohsaki/ Osaki Case) tomorrow. This is
a case where confessions were crucial pieces of evidence in
determining the defendant’s guilt. Ayako Haraguchi, now 85 years of age,
is seeking a retrial for the 2nd time. Will she get her day in court?......... In her second petition for retrial, Haraguchi brought in the
following new evidence: (1) a report by a forensic pathologist which
states that the victim’s cause of death could not have been
strangulation by a towel, (2) the fact that the objective condition of
the carpet in the crime scene did not match the confessions, and (3) a
report by psychologists that the confessions by A and B did not state
their actual experiences. How will the District Court rule this time? We will find out tomorrow on March 6th."
The entire post can be found at:
http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2013/03/04/court-to-decide-where-to-retry-a-case-from-1979-on-march-6-2013-ohsaki-case/
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