High court turns down plea for retrial over 1986 murder case

NAGOYA, Japan - Shoji Maekawa (R) and his father Reizo come out of the Nagoya High Court in Nagoya on March 6, 2013, after the court turned down an appeal for a retrial filed by Shoji Maekawa, who served a seven-year prison term for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture.

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