After nearly 60 years, former professional boxer Iwao Hakamata has been exonerated.
Ahead of a Thursday deadline to file an appeal against last month¡¯s not-guilty verdict of the Shizuoka District Court, which heard a rare retrial of the 1966 murder case against the ex-boxer, prosecutors have decided not to do so, his lawyers¡¯ office told The Japan Times on Tuesday.
¡°We are happy that it is finally over,¡± said Hideko Hakamata, who has been fighting the legal battle on behalf of her younger brother, recalling the moment she got the news from defense lawyer Hideyo Ogawa in a call on Tuesday afternoon.
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