MORI DAISUKE
HOKURIKU CLINIC MURDER CASE
Chart Mori Daisuke Case Chronology and Present Status
JIADEP Note: Below are four articles and a Wikipage about the frame-up of nurse Daisuke Mori (pictured above) for the murders of patients at the now closed Hokuriku Clinic in Sendai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Mori
The case of the killer nurse
2004/04/06
High court upholds life term for Sendai clinic murderer
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Top court dismisses appeal
by ex-nurse over Sendai clinic murder
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Ex-nurse ordered to pay Y50 million
to victim of muscle relaxant
Wednesday 28th May, 2008
High court rejects retrial appeal over 2000 murder by ex-nurse.
February 28, 2018
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The case of the killer nurse
2004/04/06
Daisuke Mori, a male nurse at the Hokuriku Clinic in Miyagi Prefecture, was convicted on March 30 of one murder and four cases of attempted murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
Mori was accused of putting muscle relaxation medicine into the patients' intravenous drips. However, Yuri Yamashita, Mori's girlfriend who worked for the same clinic and attended 155 court hearings during the trial, said, "Suspicion against Daisuke originated from the fact that 10 muscle relaxation medicines out of 20 disappeared. However, there was no proof that only Daisuke could have stolen them. Many other employees had the opportunity.
"Investigators testified that it took only two to three minutes for Daisuke to confess to the crimes he committed and the judge supported it. However, when Daisuke and I were taken to the police voluntarily, it was 8 a.m. and Daisuke was arrested officially at 3:24 p.m. It is obvious that Daisuke did not confess to the crimes until at least 3 p.m. I just do not understand why the judge supported the prosecution's allegation."
Prof Takeshi Tsuchimoto, a former Supreme Court prosecutor, said, "The court interviewed an eyewitness in the first two cases and based on that testimony, the court investigated Daisuke Mori," said Tsuchimoto who supported the court decision.
On the other hand, Kenzo Akiyama, former Tokyo High Court judge, said, "There is no evidence determining the amount of muscle relaxation medicine used in the murder. The document containing Mori's confession had been prepared before he met his lawyer. Also, there is no evidence to indicate Mori's motivation for the crimes."
Mori's lawyers have filed an appeal with a higher court. The next hearing at Sendai High Court will be a real battle between the two sides.
April 6, 2004
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2006/03/23 High Court Criminal Ruling
High court upholds life term for Sendai clinic murderer
Thursday, March 23, 2006
SENDAI (Kyodo) The Sendai High Court on Wednesday upheld a life sentence for a male nurse convicted of killing a patient and attempting to kill four others at a clinic in Sendai in 2000 by injecting them with muscle relaxant.
| Nurse Daisuke Mori listens as the Sendai High Court upholds his life sentence for killing a patient and attempting to kill four others. |
Daisuke Mori, 34, has pleaded not guilty, with his defense team claiming the patients' conditions worsened due to illness and factors other than the muscle relaxant. He immediately appealed the ruling.
His lawyers argued that the patients would have not developed the kind of symptoms they suffered even if muscle relaxant had been administered to them. They also said Mori's confession, taken immediately after his arrest, was induced by investigators.
However, presiding Judge Ryoichi Tanaka said it was difficult to believe that a situation where muscle relaxant was mistakenly administered intravenously in five cases at the same clinic within a short time was coincidental. "It is clear that someone had done this on purpose," the judge said.
The court also noted that Mori had placed orders for various types of muscle relaxant, and had also attempted to hide empty ampuls that had been used.
Based on such facts, the judge said, "Mori is the culprit in all of the cases, and there is no mistake in the lower court ruling that recognized willful intent to kill."
He also ruled that the confession could be trusted within certain boundaries.
The Sendai District Court sentenced Mori to life in March 2004, saying he had intended to kill and was the only one capable of administering the intravenous doses at the time of the crimes.
The court said he killed Yukiko Shimoyama, 89, and tried to murder four other patients, including a 1-year-old girl, at the now-defunct Hokuryo Clinic from February to November 2000.
The Japan Times: Thursday, March 23, 2006
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2008/Feb/28 Supreme Court Criminal Ruling
Top court dismisses appeal
by ex-nurse over Sendai clinic murder
Thursday, February 28, 2008
TOKYO — The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed against a life prison sentence by a former male nurse convicted of killing a patient and attempting to kill four others by injecting them with a muscle relaxant at a clinic in Sendai in 2000, judicial sources said Wednesday. The decision finalizes the life imprisonment for 36-year-old Daisuke Mori.
Mori admitted to the allegations when he was arrested in 2001 but later pleaded innocent, saying, "The patients' conditions suddenly changed because of pathologic changes or side effects of drugs, so the situations do not constitute criminal cases. They were made up. I was forced and lured to confess." According to the Sendai High Court ruling in March 2006, he killed Yukiko Shimoyama, 89, in a murder case and tried to kill four other patients in attempted murder cases, including girls aged 1 and 11, at the now-defunct Hokuryo Clinic from February to November 2000. (Kyodo News)
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TOKYO: Top court rejects ex-nurse's appeal
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former male nurse sentenced to life in prison by the Sendai High Court in 2006 for killing a patient and attempting to kill four others by mixing muscle relaxant into intravenous drips.The rejection, dated Monday, will finalize a life sentence for Daisuke Mori, 36.
Presiding Justice Tokiyasu Fujita said, "There is no mistake in the recognition that he committed the criminal acts by mixing muscle relaxant." Mori committed the crimes from February to November 2000 at a clinic in Sendai, according to the ruling.(IHT/Asahi: February 28,2008)
Ex-nurse ordered to pay Y50 million
to victim of muscle relaxant
Wednesday 28th May, 2008
SENDAI
A former male nurse at a Sendai clinic was ordered Tuesday to pay 50 million yen in damages to a 19-year-old patient and her parents for making her unconscious by administering muscle relaxant to her. In February, Daisuke Mori, 37, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing an 89-year-old woman and attempting to murder four others including the patient, Ayako Oshima, by mixing muscle relaxants into their intravenous doses when he was a nurse at the now-defunct Hokuryo Clinic in 2000.
Mori, who pleaded not guilty in the criminal trial and is planning to seek a retrial, argued in the civil suit at the Sendai District Court that he had not administered muscle relaxant and that Oshima’s condition was caused by another ailment. In a separate damages suit, the clinic agreed to pay 100 million yen to the Oshima side
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2011/July/5
Legal Team Chief Sued for Libel.
弁護団長に賠償命令 仙台筋弛緩剤事件の著書
2011.7.5 19:28
仙台の筋弛緩剤点滴事件の著書で名誉を傷つけられたとして、守大助受刑者（４０）が勤務していた北陵クリニック（閉鎖）の運営者だった半田康延東北大大学院客員教授（６５）が、守受刑者の阿部泰雄弁護団長（６３）に１千万円の損害賠償などを求めた訴訟の判決で、仙台地裁（足立謙三裁判長）は５日、１００万円の支払いを命じた。謝罪広告掲載の請求は退けた。
問題となったのは、阿部氏と守受刑者の共著「僕はやってない！」。「謀略の臭いがプンプンする？」「事を密に進めた人の動きを洗い出さなければならない」との記述があり、半田客員教授らが守受刑者を犯人に仕立てようとしたなどとする内容だった。
閉廷後、阿部氏は「名誉毀損には当たらないと考えており、控訴する方針だ」と話した。
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High court rejects retrial appeal over 2000 murder by ex-nurse
February 28, 2018 (Mainichi Japan)
SENDAI, Japan (Kyodo) -- A high court said Wednesday it has upheld a lower court decision that dismissed an appeal for retrial over a former male nurse convicted of murder and attempted murder of five patients by giving them muscle relaxant in 2000.
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Mori's defense team has pointed to what it calls errors in police analysis that showed muscle relaxant components were detected from the victim' bodies as well as from intravenous drips infused into them. To support its arguments, the team submitted opinions of three experts.
But the high court said in its decision that the lawyers' arguments are "on shaky ground" and they do not go so far as "undermining the credibility of the police analysis."
According to the finalized ruling, Mori killed Yukiko Shimoyama, 89, and tried to murder four other patients, including a 1-year-old girl, at a clinic in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, where he was working in 2000. The court ruled that Mori was dissatisfied with the deputy head of the clinic and it led to one of the five crimes, but motivations for the rest were unclear.
He was arrested in January 2001 for one of the four murder attempts. He initially admitted to the allegations, but four days after his arrest he began to say he was innocent.