Former Tokyo High Court Judge publishes book on causes of wrongful convictions

From The Japan Times: “A former judge is seeking to raise public awareness of how miscarriages of justice can occur, having reversed more than 20 guilty verdicts during eight years as a presiding judge at the Tokyo High Court. In his newly published book, “Reversed on the Facts — What Overturned Guilty Verdicts Can Teach Us About Fact-Finding,” Kunio Harada uses actual rulings in 16 of these cases to explain how he found misjudgments in the previous court decisions.” Read the full story here…