MBC News | Appeal trial canceled due to death of former male defendant (25) who was found not guilty in Amami Oshima elderly woman murder case Kagoshima Prefecture
Appeal trial canceled due to death of former male defendant (25) who was found not guilty in the murder case of an elderly woman on Amami Oshima Kagoshima Prefecture[10/20 21:11]
It has been learned that the man accused of a murder that occurred in Amami City, Kagoshima Prefecture in 2019, for whom the Kagoshima District Court had handed down a not guilty verdict and the prosecution was appealing, has died. As a result, the appeal hearing was discontinued.
According to multiple sources, the person who died was the former defendant, a 25-year-old man. A man was arrested and charged with breaking into a house in Amami City in 2019 and killing an elderly woman.
In the first instance jury trial, the prosecution asked for a sentence of 20 years in prison, but in November last year, the Kagoshima District Court acknowledged that “fingerprints and hair found at the crime scene belonged to a man,” but added, “It is not reasonable to conclude that he was murdered.” He passed a verdict of not guilty, saying,
A trial was scheduled to be held at the Miyazaki branch of the Fukuoka High Court after the prosecution filed an appeal citing a “mistake of fact,” but due to the man’s death, the high court decided to dismiss the prosecution on the 17th of this month, and the trial was discontinued.
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2023-10-20 12:11:00
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