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Man convicted of rape by all-female panel of citizen judges

May 15th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Japan

Man convicted of rape sentenced to 6 years by all-female panel of citizen judges – The Mainichi Daily News.

Yeah that wasn’t a biased conviction…. at all…

For those of you who don’t know,japan JUST changed over to trial by jury system last year.  Before trials were held with 1-3 judges who’d hear all the evidence and make a decision.  I think the old japanese system is a copy of the British system judicial system

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