Arson-murder retrial

OSAKA, Japan - Lawyers (L) inform supporters of a decision by the Osaka District Court in Osaka on March 7, 2012, to grant a retrial to the mother of an 11-year-old girl and the woman's common-law husband, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the girl's murder in Osaka in 1995.

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