Ten years ago, a dentist was accused of murdering a man who ran a construction company in Hamamatsu City. He dismissed the claim and sentenced him to 19 years in prison following the first trial.
Dentist Toshimi Fujii, 67, accused Shigeharu Takamori, then 68, of a construction company in Hamamatsu, in 2012, with sleeping pills before killing him. accused of a crime.
The defendant insisted that he was completely innocent, and in the lay judge trial in the first trial, the procedure to narrow down the evidence before the first trial took more than six years, the longest so far, and the trial was delayed due to the poor physical condition of the witness. It was suspended for 1 year and 3 months, making it the longest lay judge trial in history.
The first trial handed down a 19-year prison sentence, which the defendant appealed.
In the judgment of the second trial on the 17th, presiding judge Hajime Shimada of the Tokyo High Court said, "On the day when the defendant was scheduled to meet with the victim, he told a lie about his prescription history and obtained sleeping pills. The 1st trial judgment that it was prepared for the purpose of making him drink is not unreasonable." Following the first trial by the lay judge, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 19 years in prison.