Lake Hamana Serial Killer Oraled by the Supreme Court in December Expected to be decided by the end of the year September 18, 19:07
Four years ago, a defendant was sentenced to death in the first and second trials after being charged with murder-robbery for abandoning his body in Lake Hamana, Shizuoka Prefecture, after killing two former colleagues and acquaintances one after another. The Supreme Court has decided to hold an argument in December to hear the prosecution's and defense's allegations.
In 2016, Tatsuya Kawasaki, a 36-year-old residential land and building trader in Hamamatsu City, murdered a former colleague and a man he knew one after another, and abandoned his body in and around Lake Hamana. He is accused of murder-robbery and murder.
In the trial, the defendant pleaded not guilty, saying that "neither case was the criminal", but the Shizuoka District Court in the first instance said, "There is almost no possibility of a crime by a third party. The death penalty is unavoidable." I handed it over.
The Tokyo High Court of the second instance also sentenced to death, and the defendant has appealed.
The Supreme Court's Second Small Court has decided to hold an argument on December 14 to hear both sides' claims.
In the Supreme Court, the judgment is often handed down within a month after the argument, and it is expected that the judgment will be handed down within the year.