Japan's top court has sent back to a lower court a 1966 quadruple murder case in which a former professional boxer was sentenced to death, rejecting a high court's refusal to reopen the case, his lawyers said Wednesday.Based on the top court decision dated Tuesday, the Tokyo High Court will again examine whether to reopen the case of Iwao Hakamada, 84, who was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row. He has been struggling to clear his name over the murder in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.The Supreme Court's Third Petty Bench dismissed the credibility of DNA tes…READ FULL ARTICLE
