A former head prosecutor at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office will argue he is not guilty of sexually assaulting a subordinate who was too drunk to resist, at a hearing at the Osaka District Court on the 27th, two years after his first trial opened.
He admitted the charges at that first hearing, according to NHK. The case now turns on whether a court will accept a reversal from the man who once led prosecutions in the district.
The former 検事正 — the top post in a district prosecution office, overseeing prosecutors in the district — is accused of assaulting the subordinate while the person was unable to resist because of alcohol.
The court has not said when it will rule. The hearing on the 27th is the next stage in a case that has run for two years since the first trial began.