Eighteen years ago, the Okayama District Court sentenced a defendant to life imprisonment, as requested by the prosecution, to a defendant charged with murdering a third-grade girl in a house in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture.
In 2004, a girl in the third grade of elementary school in Tsuyama City was murdered by being stabbed in her stomach at home. Was arrested and charged with murder and other charges.
Immediately after his arrest, the defendant confessed that he had stabbed him, but then turned to denial that he was a lie statement, and the credibility of the confession became an issue in the lay judge trial.
The prosecutor's office applied for a video recording the state of the confession at the time of the interrogation as evidence, but it was not accepted by the court. Did.
On the other hand, the defendant insisted that he was not guilty, saying, "There is no direct evidence and he is not the criminal. The content of the confession is inconsistent with the facts obtained from the media."
In the judgment on the 6th, Judge Kuranariaki of the Okayama District Court sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment as the prosecution requested.