His sister, Hideko Hakamada, who is now 91 years old, submitted his second appeal for a retrial in 2008, and it took the highest court a whole 27 years to reject it.
This most recent retrial started in October after the court ultimately decided in the man’s favor in 2023. The bloodstained clothes that authorities said.
Hakamada donned during the murder and concealed in a vat of fermented soybean paste had been a major topic of debate. These were discovered almost a year after his arrest.
However, defense attorneys and past retrial rulings claimed that the blood samples did not match Hakamada’s genetic makeup.
In the meanwhile, the accused claimed that the pants the prosecution had provided as proof were too tiny and would not fit when he put them on.
