Prosecutors will begin to make their case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to a majority-women jury on rape and sex assault charges Wednesday as opening statements begin in his retrial. Weinstein’s retrial began last week, forcing survivors who helped spark the “#MeToo” movement against sexual violence to prepare to testify against him once more. … Read more
The Ace Attorney series spends the vast majority of its games following defense attorneys like Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice, but there are a few games where this isn’t the case. After all, the word “attorney” can also refer to prosecuting attorneys, like Miles Edgeworth, star of the upcoming Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. Capcom has … Read more
Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial. Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan’s current retrial system is often labelled the “Unopenable Door” because the chances of being granted a legal do-over are so … Read more
The world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, won compensation from Japan this week after almost five decades in jail — and he owes his freedom to a judge with steely determination. The former boxer, now 89, was exonerated last year of a 1966 quadruple murder after a tireless campaign by his sister and others. … Read more
Harvey Weinstein has begged a New York judge to hear the retrial in his landmark #MeToo case as soon as possible due to his deteriorating health, telling him: “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.” Weinstein has chronic myeloid leukaemia, diabetes and heart problems, and told the judge he was struggling amid … Read more
A senior Conservative has called for a retrial for Lucy Letby, the nurse jailed for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others. Former minister Sir David Davis has said he believes a retrial will “clear” her, as her conviction was “built on a poor understanding of probabilities” and lacked “hard evidence”. He told … Read more