Japan's top court has granted a posthumous retrial for a man convicted of robbing and murdering a 69-year-old woman in 1984, in the first such retrial in postwar history for a case involving a sentence of life imprisonment or death.The decision dated Tuesday by the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench granted a retrial of Hiromu Sakahara, who died of illness aged 75 in 2011 while serving a life term, dismissing the prosecution's appeal. The move indicates a high possibility of his acquittal in retrial proceedings at the Otsu District Court in Shiga Prefecture."It has taken an incredibly long …READ FULL ARTICLE
