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LDP approves government proposal to revise retrial system

The Japan Times·Kanako Takahara·19 days ago
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Keisuke Suzuki, who heads a Liberal Democratic Party panel on the judicial system, speaks during a party meeting on retrial revisions on Wednesday at the party's headquarters in Tokyo. | JIJI The Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday approved a government proposal to ban prosecutors “in principle” from appealing a retrial order, aiming to shorten the retrial process for those who might have been wrongly convicted to clear their names. The approval paves the way for the revision — a top priority for the government — to be approved by the Cabinet on Friday and be submitted to the current parliamentary session, which runs through July 17. It was approved by an LDP panel Wednesday night. For the past 1½ months, LDP lawmakers and the Justice Ministry have been at odds over the revision of the retrial system under the criminal procedural law.…

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