High court decides to retry 1990 murder case to acquit Sugaya

TOKYO, Japan - Toshikazu Sugaya speaks at a news conference in Tokyo June 23 after the Tokyo High Court decided to open a retrial on him over the 1990 murder of a 4-year-old girl in light of fresh DNA evidence that effectively proves him not guilty.

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