The Supreme Court dismissed the man's special appeal regarding the retrial = re-trial that a Nigerian man convicted of a robbery in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, had been seeking after serving his sentence 21 years ago. The decision not to allow retrial has been finalized.
A 46-year-old Nigerian man was arrested and charged as one of the criminals in a robbery case in which about 23 million yen in cash was stolen at a post office in Himeji City in 2001, and was sentenced to 6 years in prison. ..
Immediately after his arrest, the man consistently complained of innocence and filed a motion for retrial in 2012 after his imprisonment.
In 2014, the Himeji branch of the Kobe District Court decided not to allow a retrial, saying, "Even if it is not a perpetrator, it is presumed to be one of the accomplices." I canceled the district court's decision and ordered the trial to be redone.
In the trial of redoing, the Kobe District Court decided not to allow the retrial, and the Osaka High Court also said last year, "Even if you consider the newly submitted evidence, there is room for reasonable doubt in the final judgment that the man was the perpetrator. I did not approve the retrial, saying, "There is no such thing."
The man had made a special appeal as a complaint, but Atsushi Yamaguchi, the judge of the Supreme Court's First Small Court, rejected the man's motion by April 1, and the decision not to allow retrial was finalized. ..