“In 1997, it came to light that the cloth believed to have been burned had been kept by Kumamoto prosecutors.”

It’s good that a false conviction is going to be set right. What I don’t understand, though, is why I can’t find anything in the news about the need to punish those guilty of prosecutorial misconduct.

– Kirk

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/09/national/crime-legal/kumamoto-man-convicted-murder-may-acquitted/