Man files appeal with top court to seek retrial in 1966 murder case

A man convicted in a 1966 quadruple murder case filed an appeal Monday with the Supreme Court to seek a retrial, even though he was freed in 2014 after spending nearly half a century on death row, his lawyers said.Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, 82, has been struggling to clear his name over the murder in Shizuoka Prefecture he had initially confessed to, but the Tokyo High Court on June 11 scrapped a decision by the Shizuoka District Court to grant him a retrial.Court judgements have been divided over the credibility of DNA tests on five items of clothing said to have been worn by…READ FULL ARTICLE