The initial hearing for the retrial of a man whose death sentence was finalized for a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan will be held on Oct. 27, his defense team said Wednesday.The date was decided at the sixth meeting between the court, prosecutors and the defense team for Iwao Hakamata, 87, who spent nearly half a century behind bars before new evidence led to his release in 2014.During the meeting at the Shizuoka District Court, prosecutors indicated their intention to request the examination of five new witnesses, including forensic experts, during the retrial. Mitsuhiro Hazama, a …READ FULL ARTICLE
