What you need to know
- The Kumamoto Prefectural Police investigation of the case was ruled unlawful as it was conducted with the aim of extracting a confession from the suspect who was acquitted in 2019.
- Kumamoto ordered to pay damages over wrongful conviction in 1985 murder case
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The Kumamoto Prefectural Police investigation of the case was ruled unlawful as it was conducted with the aim of extracting a confession from the suspect who was acquitted in 2019.
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The Kumamoto Prefectural Police investigation of the case was ruled unlawful as it was conducted with the aim of extracting a confession from the suspect who was acquitted in 2019.
Kumamoto ordered to pay damages over wrongful conviction in 1985 murder case
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Kumamoto ordered to pay damages over wrongful conviction in 1985 murder case
The Kumamoto Prefectural Police investigation of the case was ruled unlawful as it was conducted with the aim of extracting a confession from the suspect who was acquitted in 2019.
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