A Japanese court upheld Tuesday a life sentence for a man over the 2017 murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl, rejecting the defense claim that DNA evidence used to convict him should be excluded as it was collected through illegal means.The Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by Yasumasa Shibuya, the 49-year-old former head of a parents group at Mutsumi Daini Elementary School in Matsudo near Tokyo, over the murder of Le Thi Nhat Linh, who was a third-grader at the school.Presiding Judge Masahiro Hiraki said investigators "illegally confiscated" the DNA evidence without a search warrant a…READ FULL ARTICLE