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Court upholds life sentence for ex-nurse over clinic murder

SENDAI, Japan - The Sendai High Court on March 22 upheld a life sentence for a former male nurse convicted of killing a patient and attempting to kill four others at a clinic in Sendai in 2000 by intravenously injecting them with a muscle relaxant. Photo shows defense lawyers and supporters protesting against the decision. Mori and his four lawyers were ordered to leave the courtroom as they repeatedly demanded they be allowed again to present their arguments.

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Nurse pleads not guilty to murder

SENDAI, Japan - People queue July 11 for tickets to a court trial of a former male nurse who were charged with murder and attempted murder of five people by administering them lethal intravenous doses of muscle relaxant at a hospital in Sendai. Daisuke Mori, 30, pleaded not guilty at his first hearing at the Sendai District Court.

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Sendai clinic inspected over nurse case

SENDAI, Japan - Officials from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, the Miyagi prefectural and Sendai municipal governments walk into a Sendai clinic Jan. 17 for joint inspection following the Jan. 6 arrest of a male nurse suspected of attempting to kill a patient by administering a muscle relaxant via an intravenous drip.

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Sendai clinic reopens to outpatients following nurse's arrest

SENDAI, Japan - Ikuko Handa, head of the Hokuryo Clinic in Sendai, northern Japan, meets reporters in front of the hospitla's building on Jan. 15. The hospital reopened its doors to outpatients the same day for the first time since a nurse formerly on staff was arrested Jan. 6 for allegedly trying to kill a patient with muscle relaxant in October.

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Hospital officials meet press on arrested ex-nurse

SENDAI, Japan - Noboru Nikaido (R), director of the Hokuryo Clinic hospital in Sendai, northeastern Japan, and Ikuko Handa, the hospital's vice director, meet the press at the hospital in the city's Izumi Ward on Jan. 7 after a 29-year-old male former nurse of the hospital was arrested Jan. 6 on suspicion of attempting to kill an 11-year-old patient in October by intravenously administering a muscle relaxant to her.

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(2) Kawasaki doctor arrested for allegedly killing patient in coma

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Setsuko Suda, a Yokohama-based physician who was arrested Dec. 4 on suspicion of killing a man in a coma with a lethal injection of muscle relaxant in 1998 while she worked for a hospital in Kawasaki. (Kyodo)

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Court upholds life sentence for ex-nurse over clinic murder

SENDAI, Japan - The Sendai High Court on March 22 upheld a life sentence for a former male nurse convicted of killing a patient and attempting to kill four others at a clinic in Sendai in 2000 by intravenously injecting them with a muscle relaxant. Photo shows defense lawyers and supporters protesting against the decision. Mori and his four lawyers were ordered to leave the courtroom as they repeatedly demanded they be allowed again to present their arguments. (Kyodo)

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High court rejects retrial appeal by ex-nurse over 2000 murder

A lawyer holds a banner that reads "unjust ruling" outside the Sendai High Court in Miyagi Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2018, after the court upheld a lower court decision that dismissed an appeal for retrial over Daisuke Mori, a former nurse convicted of murder and attempted murder of five patients by giving them muscle relaxant in 2000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctor pleads not guilty to murdering patient in coma

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Setsuko Suda, a doctor charged with murdering a man in a coma with an injection of muscle relaxant, leaves the Yokohama District Court on March 27. She pleaded not guilty to the charge at the opening of her trial. (Kyodo)

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Kawasaki doctor arrested for allegedly killing patient in coma

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken in Yokohama on April 23, 2002 shows Setsuko Suda who was arrested Dec. 4 on suspicion of killing a man in a coma with a lethal injection of muscle relaxant in 1998. (Kyodo)

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Sendai nurse sent to prosecutors over attempted murder

SENDAI, Japan - A 29-year-old male nurse, Daisuke Mori, is escorted by police officers at the Izumi Police Station in Sendai on Feb. 18 as he is sent to prosecutors on suspicion of attempting to murder a 1-year-old girl by administering her with lethal amounts of muscle relaxant via an intravenous drip. Police allege that Mori administered the drug to the girl at Hokuryo Clinic on Feb. 2 last year. The girl temporarily stopped breathing but later recovered and was discharged from the hospital. Mori has been in custody since being arrested Jan. 6 and subsequently charged with attempting to kill an 11-year-old girl Oct. 31 last year using the same method. The girl is still unconscious.

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