"What...... What the? Maolilan was taken aback. Mother, she actually ......" "Well, yes," Mori Kogoro looked at the file in front of him with great displeasure. "This bad old woman actually threw the case to me, a detective, like this! When I was her servant, huh? ”

"This case ......" And Conan, who was on the side, was taken aback when he saw the head of this dossier. Hakamata Yan case? ”

"You kid actually know about this case for so long?" Mori Kogoro looked at him and said with a little surprise. "I'll see, there should be ...... It's been 28 years. ”

"The case from 28 years ago?" Mao Lilan was surprised. "So long? I just went through the dossier and didn't read the contents yet...... Wait a minute, isn't 28 years the time limit for prosecution already overdue? So what else is the value of this case? ”

"This case has already been tried, and this is the evidence needed for a retrial, so I don't need to worry about those prosecution deadlines and things like that," Mori Kogoro looked through the table of contents section of the file. "There are on-site records, confession investigations, a list of evidence for the prosecution and relevant appraisal materials, and a first-instance verdict...... It's all prosecution evidence, is this guy going to defend Hakamata for manslaughter? But in that case, you shouldn't have to start with Hakamata's subjective attitude......"

When he said this, Maori Kogoro's face suddenly changed. "Wait a minute, this old woman didn't give me these prosecution supplies to ...... Falsify these things, right? ”

"Falsification?" Maoriran immediately realized what his father meant. "You're saying that the evidence could be fake?"

"Perhaps," Mori Kogoro nodded. "Yingli seems to have a unique hobby for the defense of innocence in such unjust cases, and she has been collecting relevant information during the retrial of the Shimata incident (one of Japan's famous unjust cases, convicted of robbery and murder in '48 and acquitted in the '83 retrial), and seems to have contributed to the defense in the defense."

"What are you going to do with Aunt Yingli?" Conan asked suddenly. "If this case is overturned, is it?"

"......" After glancing at the live record, Kogoro Mori's brows twitched, and finally called Mori and Conan to his side. Come and see together, and let me know if you think something is wrong. Even if it just doesn't feel right, tell me, anything abnormal counts. ”

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In the early hours of June 30, 1966, the executive director of the Miso Factory in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, was killed and set on fire to his parents and children.

In this case, the impact of public opinion was quite serious - on the fourth day after the Hakamata incident, the media reported the fact that former boxer H (Hakamada Iwao) was a suspect. Because of the relatively slow prosecution of serious crimes, by the time a case goes to trial, the public has often been mobilized by the media and has entered a frenzied mode of agitation.

For example, on September 12 of the same year, shortly after the indictment, a newspaper published an article entitled "The Triumph of Scientific Searching" in the Shizuoka edition of a newspaper, claiming that "'the bloody pajamas found in Hakamata's house' were 'the victory of scientific searches'" (Note 1); "The methods of the crime were cruel, even if the evidence was displayed in front of him, he was stubborn and abnormal, and refused to admit it for twenty days. Stubbornness and anti-sociality are the common traits of the offenders, and Hakamata is the most extreme" and "lack of sentiment and no conscience" - at this time, Hakamata is even only being prosecuted, and it is still unknown whether he is really guilty.

Under these circumstances, the verdict of the first instance found that Hakamata had committed the crime by entering the miso factory with a carpentry knife in order to steal property, wearing five pieces of clothing and a rainproof jacket. He then climbed up the tree at the back door of the shogun's house, jumped over the Tokaido railroad fence that blocked him and jumped into the shogun's house. After assassinating a family of four, he steals three wallets, returns to the factory through a backyard door, takes off five pieces of clothing and changes into pajamas, and waits for the opportunity to throw five pieces of clothing into the brewing barrels of the miso factory to destroy the evidence. Subsequently, he took the mixed oil from the oil tank at the factory, set fire to the bodies of the four people and returned to the factory.

But at the same time, the problems that arose during the trial of this case were quite obvious, and even the first-instance verdict was very strongly criticized for it.

"The way in which the search was conducted in this case, whether from the perspective of 'discovery of essential truth' or 'due process', must be seriously criticized and reflected. In order to prevent the recurrence of this case, I hereby add a postscript. ”

However, despite the verdict's strong criticism of the conduct during the search, the court did not hesitate to accept the relevant evidence submitted by the prosecution during the trial, and sentenced Hakamata to death, which was also strongly opposed by the Japan Bar Federation.

"It's not a contradiction, is it?" Maoliran was a little confused. "Although there is a problem with the process of the search, the evidence is there, and if the judge accepts the reliability of the evidence, the evidence submitted by the prosecution should be admitted anyway, right?"

"......" Maori Kogoro raised his head and looked at Maori Lan, and even looked at his own daughter who was a little hairy. You...... It's really my own daughter......"

"Huh?" Maorilan was stunned.

"I've asked Yingli this question before—why are their lawyers always nitpicking about sending out prisoners who the police have worked so hard to catch, even if the evidence has pointed to their guilt."

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"A lawyer is not a god, and it is impossible to say black as white," Fei Yingli said to her husband at the time. "In fact, we're taking on more of the role of a reminder."

"Due to many reasons, the judge's position in the trial is often highly inclined to the prosecution, turning a blind eye to the insufficient and unreasonable aspects of the evidence, which ultimately leads to the emergence of unjust, false and wrongful cases."

"And the purpose of our lawyers is to point out these problematic points, so that everyone can really look at this point and come up with a really correct answer."

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1. In the first statement of the Hakamata case, the prosecution testified that Hakamata was wearing the bloody pajamas that were found, but after finding five more powerful pieces of clothing as evidence in the miso brewing vats, they revised this judgment to wear the five pieces of clothing that were found.