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Jul 22
2008

Prosecutors appeal high court decision to retry 2 men convicted of murder, robbery

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Prosecutors on Tuesday appealed to the Supreme Court a high court decision to open a retrial for two men convicted over a 1967 murder and robbery case in Ibaraki Prefecture.

On July 14, the Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court decision to retry Shoji Sakurai, 61, and Takao Sugiyama, 61, after declaring there are serious doubts about the credibility of their statements, raising reasonable doubts about their convictions.

Sakurai and Sugiyama were released on parole in 1996 after they were sentenced to life imprisonment and spent 18 years behind bars.

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