Thirteen years ago, the Supreme Court decided to dismiss the appeal for a defendant who was accused of arson and murder for arsoning his wife and eldest daughter at his home in Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, and will be sentenced to indefinite imprisonment. became.
Defendant Teruyuki Yamano (47) from Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, was accused of arson and murder for murdering his 33-year-old wife and 4-year-old eldest daughter in 2008 by igniting his home and burning it down. I did.
In 2015, the judgment of the lay judge trial of the first trial was acquitted as "the possibility that another person arsoned cannot be denied" based on the image of the security camera and the result of the combustion experiment of the building that resembled the site. ..
On the other hand, the 2nd trial ordered the judgment of the 1st trial to be revoked for acquittal and to restart the trial, focusing on the combustion experiment that was not sufficiently reproduced.
Then, as a result of the lay judge trial, the Saitama District Court sentenced him to life imprisonment, saying that "the defendant has a motive for murder and is recognized as the criminal," and the two trials made the same decision.
In response, the defendant had appealed, but Atsushi Yamaguchi, the judge of the Supreme Court's First Small Court, decided to dismiss by the 13th, and the sentence of life imprisonment was finalized.