WAKAYAMA (TR) – A much-anticipated lay choose trial has begun on the Wakayama District Court docket, six years after the homicide of a rich 77-year-old man generally known as “Don Juan of Kishu.”
On Thursday, simply after 10:30 a.m., 28-year-old defendant Saki Sudo entered the courtroom carrying a black sleeveless costume.
Sudo stands accused of murdering her much-older husband, Kosuke Nozaki, in 2018 by giving him extreme quantities of kakuseizai, or methamphetamine.
Saki quietly as she asserted her innocence. “I didn’t kill [Nozaki], and I didn’t give him stimulants,” she mentioned. “I’m harmless.”
Even when the police officer learn out the costs in opposition to her, she didn’t seem significantly upset, and was seen touching her ears and brushing her hair again, based on Fuji Information Community (Sep. 12).
“Excellent crime”
In the meantime, in its opening assertion, the prosecution argued, “The defendant married Nozaki for his fortune, and killed him with the intention to acquire an enormous inheritance via the right crime.”
It was additionally revealed that previous to the incident, Saki had looked for phrases akin to “excellent crime,” “loss of life of an aged individual” and “stimulant overdose.”
She additionally looked for “textual content of a will if you wish to go away all of your property to your spouse.”
She can be mentioned to have ordered greater than 3 grams of stimulants — greater than 3 times the deadly dose — from an unlawful drug trafficking web site.
28 witnesses
In a number of books penned by Nozaki, he claimed to have slept with 4,000 ladies. Previous to his loss of life, he ran a number of companies. His property is valued at 1.3 billion yen.
On this homicide case, there may be little direct proof, and the prosecution plans to name an unprecedented 28 witnesses to show Saki’s crimes.
In the meantime, consultants aware of prison circumstances have identified that the hurdle for a responsible verdict is excessive.
Masaki Ayane, head lawyer at Your Ace Regulation Agency, says, “In prison trials, it’s essential to show a criminal offense past an affordable doubt. For instance, if there’s a robust risk that the sufferer took stimulants themselves, [the defendant] won’t be discovered responsible.”
The decision might be handed down this December.
