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FUKUOKA HIGH COURT

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 4, 2022
Fifth court finds Upper House poll was held in state of unconstitutionality
The maximum gap of 3.03 times represented a 'striking inequality' serious enough to raise the issue of unconstitutionality, a Miyazaki court said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 29, 2017
High court upholds retrial of man convicted of 1985 Kumamoto murder
A high court on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision to retry an 84-year-old man who served prison time for fatally stabbing an acquaintance in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1985.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 27, 2016
Kagoshima man freed after wrongful rape conviction; police DNA tests called into question
A ruling by the Fukuoka High Court acquitting a man of the rape of a teenage girl in 2012 was finalized Wednesday after prosecutors did not appeal it.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 19, 2013
Fukuoka court rules July vote gap nearly unconstitutional; results stand
The Fukuoka High Court ruled Thursday that the disparity in the weight of the votes cast in the House of Councilors election in July was "in a state of unconstitutionality" but rejected the plaintiffs' demand to nullify the results.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 17, 2013
Okinawa court finds 'unconstitutionality' in July election vote gap
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court ruled Tuesday that the disparity of up to 4.77-fold in the weight of votes in July's Upper House election was "in a state of unconstitutionality" but rejected the plaintiff's demand that the result in Okinawa be invalidated.

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