"What...what?" Ran Maori was surprised. "Mother, she actually..." "Yes," Kogoro Mori looked at the file in front of him with annoyance. "This old woman actually threw the case to me, a detective! Do you think I am her servant?"

"This case..." Conan, who was standing beside him, was surprised when he saw the file rising. "The Yamada Yan case?"

"You kid actually know about the case that has been so long?" Kogoro Mori glanced at him and said in a little surprised. "Look, it should be... 28 years."

"A case 28 years ago?" Maori Ran said in surprise. "Is it so long? I just passed the file and haven't read the content yet... Wait a minute, if 28 years have passed, isn't the prosecution deadline exceeded? So what value is this case?"

"This case has been tried long ago. This is the evidence needed for retrial, so there is no need to care about the prosecution period," Kogoro Mori looked through the catalog of the file. "There are on-site records, confession investigation, list of public prosecution evidence and related appraisal materials, and the first-instance judgment...all are evidence from the prosecution. Is this guy going to defend Hakata's manslaughter? But in that case, it shouldn't be necessary to start with Hakata's subjective attitude..."

When he said this, Kogoro Mouri's face suddenly changed. "Wait a minute, this old woman gave me these prosecutor supplies to... to falsify these things, right?"

"False?" Maori Ran immediately realized what his father meant. "You mean, the evidence may be false?"

"Maybe," Kogoro Mori nodded. "Eiri seems to have a unique interest in defending the innocence of such unjust cases. During the retrial of the field exemption incident (one of the famous unjust cases in Japan, convicted of robbery and murder in 48 years, and acquitted in 83 years) she has been collecting relevant information, and it seems that she is still working hard for the defense in the defense."

"What is Aunt Eri going to do?" Conan asked suddenly. "If this case is not easy to reverse the case, right?"

"..." After taking a look at the on-site record, Kogoro Mori's brow twitched, and finally called Ran Mori and Conan to his side. "Come here and see together. If you think there is something wrong, tell me. Even if you just think it is wrong, tell me, and any abnormality is counted."

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In the early morning of June 30, 1966, the family of the specialized director of the Miso Factory in Kiyomizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture was brutally destroyed, and all parents and children were brutally killed and set on fire. The factory's employees, former professional boxer Shirata Shirata, were quickly identified as a suspect. After finding relevant evidence, they were sentenced to robbery and murder and arson in the house and sentenced to death.

In this case, the influence of public opinion was quite serious - on the fourth day after the Yada incident, the media reported the fact that former boxer H (Hakamada Iwao) was a suspect. Because the prosecution time for felony crimes is relatively slow, when the case enters the trial period, the people are often mobilized by the media and enter a fanatical mode of excitement.

For example, on September 12 of the same year, not long after the prosecution, a newspaper publication "The Song of Triumphant Symposium" was published in the Shizuoka edition, claiming that "'Searching bloody pajamas from Hatan's house" was the 'victory scientific search' (Note 1); "Hada is an abnormal personality that ordinary people cannot imagine"; "The means of crime are cruel, and even if the evidence is displayed in front of him, he is extremely stubborn and refused to admit it for twenty days. Stubborn and antisocial nature are the common character of the criminals, and Hatan is the most extreme" and "lack of sentiment and no conscience" and other comments - and at this time, Hatan was even just prosecuted, and it is still unknown whether he is really guilty.

In this case, the first-instance judgment found that Yan Yada committed the crime in the following way: in order to steal property, he wore five pieces of clothing and a rain jacket, and carried a carpenter knife into the miso factory. He then climbed onto the tree at the back door of the specialist, crossed the Tokaido Railway guardrail that was blocked in the middle and jumped into the specialist's house. After assassinating a family of four, he stole three wallets, returned to the factory through the backyard door, took off five pieces of clothing and changed his pajamas, and waited for an opportunity to throw the five pieces of clothing into the brewing barrel of the miso factory to destroy the evidence. He then took out the mixed oil from the factory's oil tank, lit the bodies of the four people and returned to the factory.

But at the same time, the problems that arose during the trial of this case were quite obvious, and even the first-instance judgment criticized it very strongly.

"The search method of this case, whether from the perspective of 'discovery of the essential truth' or 'due process', must be seriously criticized and reflected on it. In order to prevent the situation in this case from happening again, I hereby applauded."

However, although the judgment strongly criticized the behavior during the search, the court still recognized the relevant evidence submitted by the prosecution without hesitation during the trial and sentenced Shirata Yan to death, which was also strongly opposed by the Japanese Lawyers Federation.

"This is not contradictory, right?" Maori Ran was a little confused. "Although the search process is problematic, the evidence is there. If the judge acknowledges the reliability of the evidence, the evidence submitted by the prosecution should be recognized in any case, right?"

"..." Kogoro Mori raised his head, looked at Ran Mori, and even looked at his biological daughter, and felt a little furious. "You... are really my biological daughter..."

"Ah?" Ran Maori was stunned.

"I have asked Eli this question before - why are their lawyers always picky and send out the prisoners that the police finally caught, even if the evidence has pointed to them, they are indeed guilty."

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"A lawyer is not a god, and it is impossible to say that the black one is white," said Eiri to her husband at that time. "In fact, what we are responsible for is more of the identity of the reminder."

"For many reasons, judges' positions in trials are often highly inclined toward the prosecution, turning a blind eye to those inadequate and unreasonable areas in the evidence, which ultimately leads to the emergence of unjust, false and wrong cases."

"The purpose of our lawyers is to point out these questions, so that everyone can truly examine this point and come up with a truly correct answer."

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Chapter completed!