Wakayama poison curry case Reconsideration of Masami Hayashi, death row prisoner
On April 24, the Osaka High Court ruled that a re-trial of a poison curry in Wakayama City, which was confirmed by death prisoner Masami Hayashi, who had been condemned to death, was rejected.
In July 1998, in the poisoning curry case where 67 people were poisoned by arsenic and four people died in Wakayama City, Masami Hayashi, death sentenced prisoner (58), who was sentenced to death, appealed for innocence and demanded a retrial = re-trial. Was.
The lawyer submitted new evidence that the arsenic contained in the curry and the arsenic contained in the house of the condemned prisoner differed in impurities, but three years ago, in the Wakayama region The court denied the allegation and was protesting.
Judge Hiroaki Higuchi of the Osaka High Court said on Wednesday that `` even if new evidence has weakened the perceptions of the original test results that arsenic at home or the like was used for the crime, It is limited. Even if the combined evidence of the old and new is considered, there is no reason to raise a reasonable doubt on the facts of the final judgment ”, following the Wakayama District Court.
According to the lawyers, the prisoner will be appealing to the Supreme Court for appealing the decision on the 24th.
Lawyers Policy to Special Appeal to Supreme Court
Regarding the decision of the Osaka High Court, Masahiro Hayashi, a lawyer for prisoners of death row, Yoshihiro Yasuda said, `` The Osaka High Court acknowledged that while the newly submitted letter of opinion weakened the value of the evidence at the time of the investigation, Said that there is still no room for suspicion of being a criminal. This is an unfair attempt to maintain the ruling and the Wakayama District Court's decision deliberately shifting the issue. " And announced a policy to make a special appeal to the Supreme Court.