Presumed Guilty - Creating False Confessions

Presumed Guilty - Creating False Confessions 2008 Released

Directed by Hiroo Ikeda

Documentary · 48 min

 

Presumed Guilty - Creating False Confessions 2008 Released

Directed by Hiroo Ikeda

Documentary · 48 min

 

Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of vote-buying. Those who buckled under the pressure and confessed spent over a year in prison. All the "suspects" were finally acquitted, but remain permanently scarred by the ordeal. This documentary is a dramatic reminder that... see more

Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of vote-buying. Those who buckled under the pressure and confessed spent over a year in prison. All the "suspects" were finally acquitted, but remain permanently scarred by the ordeal. This documentary is a dramatic reminder that... see more

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RELEASED
Jun 23, 2008
COUNTRY
JP
LANGUAGE
JA
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Japanese
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