After practically 60 years, former skilled boxer Iwao Hakamata has been exonerated.
Forward of a Thursday deadline to file an attraction towards final month’s not-guilty verdict of the Shizuoka District Courtroom, which heard a uncommon retrial of the 1966 homicide case towards the ex-boxer, prosecutors have determined not to take action, his attorneys’ workplace instructed The Japan Instances on Tuesday.
“We’re completely satisfied that it’s lastly over,” stated Hideko Hakamata, who has been combating the authorized battle on behalf of her youthful brother, recalling the second she obtained the information from protection lawyer Hideyo Ogawa in a name on Tuesday afternoon.
