Three years ago, a former SDF officer who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a police officer at a police box in Toyama City and shooting a nearby guard with a pistol dissatisfied with the sentence on the 16th. I appealed.
At the trial, the prosecution sought the death penalty, while the defendant's lawyer demanded life imprisonment.
In June 2018, former SDF officer Keidai Shimazu (24) stabbed Kenichi Inaizumi (46), who was an assistant police officer at the time, with a knife and killed him at a police station in Toyama City, and robbed him of his pistol. Shinichi Nakamura (68), a guard in front of the elementary school gate, was accused of murder-robbery and murder for shooting and killing him with his pistol.
Defendant Shimazu was consistently silent in the trial, and the Toyama District Court said on the 5th of this month that he was guilty of murder and theft instead of murder-robbery, saying that "the possibility that he was willing to take a fist gun after killing a police officer cannot be ruled out." He sentenced him to life imprisonment, saying, "I can't say that I have a high degree of planning, and I can't say that it is unavoidable to choose the death penalty."
Defendant Shimazu himself appealed to the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court on the 16th, dissatisfied with this ruling.
At the trial, the prosecution sought the death penalty, while the defendant's lawyer demanded life imprisonment.
The wife of security guard Shinichi Nakamura, who was killed about Shimadzu's appeal, said, "I can't comment because I don't know if he wants the death penalty or commutation. But I was surprised. I want to know his true intentions. That's it. "