Four years ago, the Supreme Court held a trial of the defendant who was sentenced to death in the first and second trials for murdering two men and abandoning the body in Lake Hamana, etc., and the defense revoked the judgment of the second trial. The prosecution demanded that the appeal be dismissed.
In 2016, Tatsuya Kawasaki, a 37-year-old residential land and building trader in Hamamatsu City, murdered a former colleague and a man he knew one after another, and robbed him of his body in and around Lake Hamana. He is accused of murder and other crimes.
The defendant pleaded not guilty at the trial, but the Shizuoka District Court in the first instance sentenced him to death, saying that "the possibility of a crime by a third party is almost unthinkable," and the second instance also sentenced him to death.
In an argument held at the Supreme Court on the 14th, the defendant's lawyer said, "The prosecutor showed evidence to the defendant who was silent in the first instance trial and repeatedly asked questions, and the right to remain silent was violated. The serious fact that it was carried by cardboard is also insufficiently proven, "he insisted on revoking the judgment of the second instance.
Meanwhile, the prosecution said, "The defendant was able to exercise his right to remain silent. He was not forced to make statements that were detrimental to him," and demanded that the appeal be dismissed.