Japan court acquits man of 1986 schoolgirl murder in retrial

A man who served seven years in prison for the 1986 murder of a junior high school student was acquitted Friday in a retrial, with a Japanese high court dismissing the credibility of the testimony of his acquaintances that led to his initial guilty verdict.In the ruling handed down on 60-year-old Shoshi Maekawa over the murder of a teenage girl in Fukui, central Japan, the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court acknowledged the possibility of the police having led witnesses and accused prosecutors of withholding key information that could have led to an earlier acquittal.The case is the l…READ FULL ARTICLE