A former assistant nurse convicted of murdering a patient in 2003 is set to be exonerated after prosecutors on Monday did not contest new evidence presented by her defense team during the first hearing of her retrial.Mika Nishiyama, 40, has spent 12 years in prison after being found guilty in 2005 of killing a 72-year-old man by removing his respirator at a hospital in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan.But at the hearing at the Otsu District Court, the prosecutors did not contest new defense-submitted evidence including a doctor's opinion that the patient died of natural causes."We will put t…READ FULL ARTICLE
