In the case where Tokuichiro Tamazawa, a former member of the House of Representatives who served as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, was shot, the Supreme Court decided to dismiss the defendant's appeal for violating the Firearms and Swords Act, and a sentence of five years in prison was confirmed. It was decided to do.
Defendant Shun Takahashi (83), an agricultural worker in Oshu City, Iwate Prefecture, shot a pistol at the home of former Senator Tamazawa in Morioka City last December and violated the Firearms and Swords Act for injuring his feet for 20 days. I was charged with such crimes.
The Morioka District Court in the first instance sentenced him to five years in prison, and in the second instance, the defendant claimed that he had been "grabbed by a former member of the Diet and shot in self-defense," but the Sendai High Court rejected the defendant's claim. He was sentenced to five years in prison, the same as the first trial.
In response, the defendant had appealed, but Judge Hayashi Michiharu of the Supreme Court's Third Small Court decided to dismiss by the 25th, and the sentence of five years in prison was finalized.