” Ghosn was denied bail on several occasions and held in what many feel were intolerable conditions. In fear of an almost certain conviction, Ghosn escaped the country and returned to his home country
Japan’s criminal conviction rate is famously high, at more than 99 percent. That could suggest if you’re accused of a crime while holidaying in Japan you essentially have no hope of defending this charge. But that conviction rate is very misleading. It is only so high because many people...
Nicknamed "the Razor," he has won rare acquittals in a nation where the conviction rate is 99 percent. Hironaka said the lawyer most responsible for securing Ghosn's release was Takashi Takano, who studied at Southern Methodist University's law school in Dallas. "We hope this can ser...
The MOJ (ministry of justice) HATES gaijin (foreigners) that's WHY there is a 99% plus conviction rate in Japan. The police, prosecutors,judges are extremely prejudiced and they RARELY if ever pursue Japanese especially wealthy connected ones like Abe who was recently accused of corruption. Eve...
The acquittal made him the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japan, where prosecutors have a more than 99% conviction rate and retrials are extremely rare. Hakamada was convicted of murder in the 1966 killing of an executi...
describes the project as a "sign of a moral panic", adding that it compounds Amnesty's long-standing concerns about how Japan's prosecution system attains its stunningly high conviction rate of about 99%."We want Japan to bring its system up to international standards for fair trial and inte...
Japan’s justice system has come under fire from human rights advocates for its long detentions, the reliance on confessions and prolonged trials. The conviction rate is higher than 99%. Even if Ghosn had been found innocent, the prosecutors could have appealed, and the appeals process could ...
3. In the past, the Japanese court system has had a conviction rate as high as 99%! 2. Japanese prisons (as of 2003) operated at an average of 117% capacity. 1. Raised floors help indicate when to take off slippers or shoes. At the entrance to a home in Japan, the floor will ...
Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High? Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent. Because Japanese judges can be penalized by a personnel office if they rule in ways the office dislikes, perh... JM Ramseyer,EB Rasmusen - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 0发表: 0年...
If a foreigner gets arrested then good luck getting access to a council that speaks your native language and with a 97% conviction rate then you know for a fact that they torture you till you admit to a crime you don’t commit. Penguin Monkey July 27, 2022 at 12:30 pm I told ...