Trial of Homicides in Hikari City
Yasuda is also a chief defender for a 19 year-old boy accused of the murder of a woman and her 1 year-old daughter in Hikari city, Yamaguchi. This case has received much attention because of the circumstances of the crime and the possibility of imposing the death penalty on a minor (which is age 20 in Japan). In March 2006, Yasuda and his group of attorneys were absent from the oral argument hearing with some reason. The Japanese media have considered that their behavior was to delay the trial just in the same way as during the Asahara trial without considering any lawyer side reasons, and the Supreme Court ordered him to attend the next hearing.
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