At a prefectural high school in Hamamatsu City, the Supreme Court has decided not to allow a retrial, or redo the trial, sought by a former principal who was found guilty of receiving cash in return for falsifying a student's questionnaire. .
Yoshinobu Kitagawa (75), the former principal of Tenryu Forestry High School in Hamamatsu City, was accused of receiving cash from the former mayor of Tenryu City, a relative of a student, in return for falsifying a student's questionnaire. He pleaded not guilty, but in 2010, a suspended sentence was finalized.
In 2014, the former principal's side requested that the trial be redone, arguing that the former mayor's confession, which was the decisive factor in his guilt, was coerced.
Regarding this, the Shizuoka District Court Hamamatsu Branch did not admit it, saying, ``It is difficult to think that he was forced to confess falsely, or that he dared to testify falsely in order to frame the former principal,'' and the Tokyo High Court also dismissed the allegation.
The former principal filed a special appeal as dissatisfied, but Chief Judge Masaaki Oka of the First Petty Court of the Supreme Court made a decision to reject the case by the 8th, and the decision not to allow the trial to be redone was finalized.
In the Supreme Court hearing, there was an unusual development in which the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office disclosed that police's interrogation memo of the former mayor, which had been said to have never existed, was found. I have complained, but my claim has not been accepted.