Eight years ago, a woman's body was found in a graveyard in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and a former dating partner was charged with murder. In a trial ordering a re-trial, the Supreme Court decided to dismiss the defendant's appeal.
In the future, the trial will be redone at the Tokyo District Court.
In 2013, in a case where a 25-year-old woman was found dead in a graveyard in Sagamihara City, former dating partner Kazumasa Sato (35) was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty.
The Tokyo District Court of the first instance sentenced him to 17 years in prison, admitting that he had taken sleeping pills and suffocated his neck.
On the other hand, the Tokyo High Court of the second trial revoked the judgment of the first trial, saying that "the judgment of the first trial that admitted that the cause of death was suffocation is incorrect and there is a possibility of poisoning death due to sleeping pills", and the defendant took sleeping pills with murder He ordered the trial to be redone, including the possibility of an attempted murder.
The defendant had appealed to this, but Atsushi Yamaguchi, the judge of the Supreme Court's First Small Court, decided to dismiss by the 18th, and the trial will be redone at the Tokyo District Court in the future.