SHIZUOKA – Lawyers for a man sentenced to death in a multiple-murder case from 1966 called for a retrial Monday, saying new evidence proves their client was wrongfully convicted.
Defense lawyers for Iwao Hakamada, 77, submitted a statement to the Shizuoka District Court saying DNA test results exonerate Hakamada, while prosecutors submitted a counterstatement the same day.
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