SAITAMA (Kyodo) The first foreign defendant to be tried in a lay judge trial was sentenced Friday to five years in prison at the Saitama District Court for two counts of robbery resulting in injury.
The case involving the 20-year-old Filipino man was also the first in which interpreters were used in a lay judge trial.
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