Presumed Guilty - Creating False Confessions
Plot: Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of vote-buying. Those who buckled under the pressure and confessed spent over a year in prison
Release Date:
Monday, June 23 2008
16 years ago
16 years ago