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In March 1986, a junior high school student was killed in Fukui City. Though the suspect who was arrested a year later pled not guilty, he ended up serving a prison sentence. He was finally acquitted at a retrial, but that was this July - nearly four decades later. Why did it take so long? One of the answers lies in the Japanese judicial system's absence of rules that require prosecutors to disclose evidence in a retrial. In the Fukui case, for many years the prosecution had been withholding key evidence that later proved the man's innocence. We look at what needs to be done to help save the victims of wrongful convictions. <br><br>Guest: Ibusuki Makoto (Professor, Seijo University)
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In March 1986, a junior high school student was killed in Fukui City. Though the suspect who was arrested a year later pled not guilty, he ended up serving a prison sentence. He was finally acquitted at a retrial, but that was this July - nearly four decades later. Why did it take so long? One of the answers lies in the Japanese judicial system's absence of rules that require prosecutors to disclose evidence in a retrial. In the Fukui case, for many years the prosecution had been withholding key evidence that later proved the man's innocence. We look at what needs to be done to help save the victims of wrongful convictions. <br><br>Guest: Ibusuki Makoto (Professor, Seijo University)