Tokyo court orders retrial of 1966 quadruple murder case

A Tokyo court decided Monday to grant a retrial to a former professional boxer who was sentenced to death over a 1966 quadruple murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, and who spent nearly half a century behind bars before new evidence led to his release.The Tokyo High Court decision on the retrial of Iwao Hakamata, 87, came after the Supreme Court sent the case back to the court in 2020, ordering it to reconsider an earlier decision not to reopen it.The court said it "cannot possibly identify Mr. Hakamata as the culprit," citing the unreliability of the main evidence -- five pie…READ FULL ARTICLE