Conan: The Mechanic

"What... what?" Mao Lilan was taken aback. "Mother, she actually..." "Well, yes," Mouri Kogoro looked at the file in front of him unhappily. "This poor old woman just left the case to a famous detective like me! Do you think I'm her servant, ah?"

"This case..." Conan, who was beside him, was surprised when he saw the head of the file. "The Hakata Yan case?"

"You kid actually know about such a long-term case?" Kogoro Mouri glanced at him and said with a little surprise. "I see, it should be... 28 years."

"The case 28 years ago?" Maurilan asked in surprise. "Is it so long ago? I just passed the dossier, but haven't read the content... Wait a minute, isn't the time limit for prosecution over 28 years? Then what's the value of this case?"

"The trial of this case has already been completed. This is the evidence needed for the retrial, so there is no need to worry about the time limit for prosecution." Kogoro Mouri flipped through the table of contents of the dossier. "Here are the on-site records, the confession investigation book, the list of public prosecution evidence and related appraisal materials, the first-instance judgment... all of which are the evidence of the prosecution. Does this guy plan to defend Hakata for manslaughter? But in that case, it should not need to be based on Hakata's subjectivity. Attitude to start..."

Speaking of this, Kogoro Mouri's expression suddenly changed. "Wait a minute, this old woman didn't want to give me these prosecution supplies... to falsify these things, right?"

"Falsification?" Maorilan immediately realized what his father meant. "You mean the evidence might be false?"

"Maybe," Kogoro Mori nodded. "Eri seems to have a very unique hobby for the innocence defense of such unjust cases. During the retrial of the Mita incident (one of the famous unjust cases in Japan, she was convicted of robbery and murder in 1948, and acquitted in the retrial in 1983), she has been collecting relevant information. information, and seems to be contributing to the defense during the defense.”

"What is Aunt Yingri going to do?" Conan asked suddenly. "It's not easy to overturn this case, right?"

"..." After taking a look at the on-site record, Kogoro Mouri's brows twitched, and he finally called Mourilan and Conan to his side. "Come over and watch it together, and let me know if you think something is wrong. Even if you just think it's wrong, tell me. Any abnormality counts."

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In the early morning of June 30, 1966, the family of the executive director of the miso factory in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture was slaughtered. Parents and children were all killed and set on fire. The factory's employee, former professional boxer Yan Hakada was quickly identified as a suspect. , was convicted of robbery, murder and house arson and sentenced to death after finding relevant evidence.

In this case, the influence of public opinion is quite serious - on the fourth day after the Hakata incident, the media has already reported the fact that the former boxer H (Hakamada Iwao) is a suspect. Because of the relatively slow time to prosecute felonies, by the time a case goes to trial, citizens are often mobilized by the media and go into a frenzy of rage.

For example, on September 12 of the same year, not long after the lawsuit was filed, the Shizuoka edition of a certain newspaper published an article "The Triumph of Scientific Search", claiming that "the **** pajamas were found in the hakama field house". The victory of scientific search' (Note 1); "Hakamada is a person with an abnormal personality that ordinary people can't imagine"; "The method of crime is cruel, even if the evidence is displayed in front of him, he is stubborn and abnormal, and refuses to admit it for up to 20 days. Stubbornness and anti-sociality are common characteristics of criminals, and Hakamada is the most extreme" and "lack of sentiment, no conscience" and other comments - at this time, Hakamada Yan was even just prosecuted, even if he was really guilty. It's still just an unknown.

Under such circumstances, the first-instance verdict found that Hakada had committed the crime in the following manner: In order to steal property, he entered the miso factory wearing five pieces of clothing and a rain jacket, and carrying a woodworking knife. Afterwards, he climbed to the tree at the back door of the specialist, jumped over the Tokaido railway guardrail that was blocking the way and jumped into the specialist. After assassinating a family of four, he stole three wallets, returned to the factory through the backyard door, took off five clothes and changed into pajamas, and waited for the opportunity to throw the five clothes into the brewing barrel of the miso factory to destroy the evidence. He then took the oil mixture from the factory's oil tank, set the bodies of the four on fire and returned to the factory.

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

"The search method in this case, whether from the perspective of 'discovery of the essential truth' or from the perspective of 'due process', requires serious criticism and introspection. In order to prevent the recurrence of this case, I hereby add a post."

However, although the verdict strongly criticized the behavior during the search~www.readwn.com~, the court still recognized the relevant evidence submitted by the prosecution without hesitation during the trial, and sentenced Yan Hakada to death, which was also punished. To the strong opposition of the Japan Bar Association.

"It's not contradictory, right?" Maurilan was a little puzzled. "Although there is a problem with the search process, the evidence is there. If the judge recognizes the reliability of the evidence, should he approve the evidence submitted by the prosecution anyway?"

"..." Kogoro Mauri raised his head, looked at Maurilan, and even looked at his biological daughter with hair. "You...really my own daughter..."

"Huh?" Mao Lilan was stunned.

"I've asked Yingri this question before - why their lawyers are always nitpicking and sending out the prisoners that the police have managed to catch, even if the evidence already points to their guilt."

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"Lawyers are not gods, and it is impossible to turn black into white," Fei Yingli said to her husband at that time. "In fact, we take on more of the identity of the 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 parts of the evidence, which eventually leads to the emergence of unjust, false and wrongly determined cases."

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

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1. In the first statement in the Hakamada case, the prosecution alleged that Hakamada was wearing the **** pajamas that were found, but after five more powerful pieces of clothing were found in the miso brewing barrel as evidence, they revised this judgment as: Wearing the five items of clothing that were found.