A lawyer for an 88-year-old man acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case has sought about 217 million yen ($1.4 million) in state compensation for his nearly half-century wrongful detention, a source close to the matter said Wednesday.The request for criminal compensation, entitled under Japanese law, was submitted to the Shizuoka District Court the same day after Iwao Hakamata's acquittal was finalized in October, marking the end of his family's decades-long fight to free him from death row.Under Japan's Criminal Compensation Act, an acquitted person can receive up to 12,50…READ FULL ARTICLE
