A senior Aum Shinrikyo member on death row downplayed during testimony Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court the involvement of Makoto Hirata in the 1995 abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary.
It was the first time since the lay judge system came into being in 2009 that a convict waiting for the death penalty has been summoned to the witness stand.
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