Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishThirteen cases in which a former crime-lab employee was accused of falsifying DNA test documents will not be prosecuted, the Saga District Public Prosecutors Office said, effectively ending the investigation.
A former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office admitted the charge, then withdrew his plea. At the second hearing, his accuser's sobs filled the courtroom and his former colleagues offered little sympathy.
Kenjiro Kitagawa, 67, a former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, denies the charge of quasi-rape against a subordinate prosecutor; she took the stand against him.
