Iwao Hakamada, 88, a former boxer, was acquitted in September by the Shizuoka District Court, which said police and prosecutors collaborated to fabricate and plant evidence against him and forced him to confess during violent, hours-long closed interrogations. The acquittal was finalized earlier this month.
Local police apologises to man acquitted from nearly 50 years on death row
Iwao Hakamada, 88, a former boxer, was acquitted in September by the Shizuoka District Court, which said police and prosecutors collaborated to fabricate and plant evidence against him and forced him to confess during violent, hours-long closed interrogations. The acquittal was finalized earlier this month.