Nozaki Hiroshi
JIADEP NOTE: Nozaki is just one more example of the despise the judiciary has for the constitution. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the first trial, sentenced to death on appeal. His own confession sealed his fate.
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Man given death, 14-year term for murders of 2 Filipinas
09th October, 2010
TOKYO
A high court on Friday sentenced a Japanese man to death for murdering a Filipina in 2008 and to 14 years in prison for the murder of a second Filipina in 1999.
The Tokyo High Court handed down the death sentence to Hiroshi Nozaki, 51, for the murder of Honiefaith Ratilla Kamiosawa, 22, in 2008, scrapping a district court ruling that gave him a life term. Separately, it upheld the lower court ruling on the slaying of Elda Longakit Yoneda, 27, in 1999.
The rulings were given separately as Nozaki was charged with the 1999 murder only after being found guilty and having his sentence finalized for dismembering and abandoning the victim’s body. The criminal law stipulates that a crime connected to another crime on which final judgment has already been passed cannot be judged together with another case.
Nozaki was imprisoned in 2000 after his sentence of three-and-a-half years for dismembering and abandoning Yoneda’s body had been finalized. Police established a murder case only after he was released from jail.
Noting that he committed the 2008 murder despite being given the chance to reflect on his earlier crime, Presiding Judge Tetsuji Nagaoka said, in handing down the death sentence, ‘‘There is no possibility of the defendant being reformed.’‘
The Tokyo District Court ruling last year said Nozaki suffocated Yoneda with a futon mattress at a condominium in Yokohama in April 1999 and strangled Kamiosawa at a Tokyo condominium in April 2008 before dumping parts of her body in a canal and other places.
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Hangman Cheated: Prison terms given for killings
2009/12/17
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a 50-year-old man to life in prison for the 2008 murder of a Filipino woman.
It also sentenced Hiroshi Nozaki to a 14-year prison term for slaying another Filipina in Yokohama in 1999.
His first victim was aged 27. His second victim, 22-year-old Honiefaith Ratilla Kamiosawa, was killed in Tokyo.
Nozaki was also convicted of dismembering and abandoning Kamiosawa's body.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for the 2008 murder and life imprisonment in the 1999 case.
Nozaki had already been convicted of dismembering and abandoning the first victim's body, so the court handed down two separate sentences according to the Criminal Law.
When Nozaki was first convicted in the 1999 case, investigators were unable to turn up sufficient evidence to indict Nozaki for murder.(IHT/Asahi: December 17,2009)