Tokyo's high court ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former professional boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades after a murder conviction that his lawyers said was based on a forced confession and fabricated evidence.
Tokyo's high court on Monday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former professional boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades after a murder conviction that his lawyers said was based on a forced confession and fabricated evidence., deserves a retrial because of a possibility that key evidence that led to his conviction could have been fabricated by investigators, the Japan Bar Association said in a statement.
Hakamada was not executed because of lengthy appeals and the retrial process. It took 27 years for the Supreme Court to deny his first appeal for a retrial. He filed a second appeal in 2008, and the court finally ruled in his favor on Thursday. Defense lawyers and earlier retrial decisions said the blood samples did not match Hakamada's DNA, and trousers that prosecutors submitted as evidence were too small for Hakamada and did not fit when he tried them on.
Former Japanese professional boxer Iwao Hakamada , who was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in 1966 and released in 2014, and his sister Hideko leave after a press conference in Tokyo on November 25, 2019.Hakamada has been serving his sentence at home since his release in 2014 because his frail health and age made him a low risk for escape.
"I will only tell him to rest assured, because we got a good result," she said."Now, I just need to make sure I can see the retrial begin."
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