Tsuchiura Family Killing (x3) 土浦家族３人殺害
Defendant=Ijima Masaru 飯嶋勝
JIADEP Note: Upon the prosecution's appeal, the defendant was declared sane, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Prosecutors appeal man's insanity acquittal
over murder of parents, sister
July 13, 2008
MITO -- Prosecutors have appealed a district court ruling that acquitted a man accused of murdering his parents and sister after deeming he was insane at the time of the crime.
The Mito District Public Prosecutors Office filed the appeal with the Tokyo High Court, claiming that the 31-year-old defendant from Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, can be fully responsible for the crime.
On June 27, the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court found the man not guilty to murdering his 57-year-old father, 54-year-old mother and 31-year-old sister with a kitchen knife and a hammer at their home in November 2004. Prosecutors had demanded that he be hanged.
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Man found insane, not guilty of killing parents,
sister 4 years ago
Saturday 28th June 2008
MITO —
A 31-year-old man accused of killing his parents and his elder sister in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in November 2004, was found insane and not guilty on Friday. The Mito District Court ruled the defendant could not be held punishable under the Penal Code, said Presiding Judge Shiego Ito of the Tsuchira district court.
The name of the defendant is withheld because he was found insane. The defense said that the defendant suffered from schizophrenia after dropping out of a professional school. The prosecution cited the defendant’s act of preparing weapons for the crime as a sign of his mental competency. Ultimately, a court-commissioned psychiatrist testified that the defendant was in a state of diminished capacity and had no clear concept of right and wrong at the time of the crime. The Penal Code says ‘‘An act of insanity is not punishable. An act of diminished capacity shall lead to the punishment being reduced.’’
According to prosecutors, the defendant made the decision to kill his father after being repeatedly told to find a job. On November 24, 2004 the defendant killed his mother and sister with a hammer and kitchen knife and killed his father later that day.
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Hermit accused of killing parents,
sister acquitted due to insanity
TSUCHIURA, Ibaraki -- A man accused of killing his parents and sister after secluding himself at his home for nearly a decade was acquitted of murder charges Friday after he was deemed insane at the time of the incident.
The Tsuchiura Branch of the Mito District Court found a 31-year-old unemployed man from Tsuchiura, not guilty of murder, saying that the defendant could not be held responsible for the crimes.
The man had been indicted on charges of killing his 57-year-old father, 54-year-old mother and 31-year-old sister with a kitchen knife and a hammer at their home in Tsuchiura on Nov. 24, 2004.
The defendant had quit a vocational school and had reportedly secluded himself in his house for about nine years since around the age of 19.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for the defendant, arguing that a psychiatric evaluation conducted during the investigation acknowledged that the man was fully capable of being held liable for the murders. Prosecutors had also said the defendant had "motives and plans" for the murder because he had purchased a kitchen knife and a hammer after he got into a quarrel with his father around June 2004.
However, the defense lawyer for the man had maintained that he was not guilty on the grounds that a psychiatric evaluation conducted during his trial concluded that the defendant "had diminished capacity" and that it "cannot be ruled out that he was mentally incompetent" at the time of the crime.
"The defendant was suffering from schizophrenia and was obsessed with delusions," the lawyer said.
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２００８年（平成２０年）６月２７日、水戸地裁土浦支部（伊藤茂夫裁判長）で約９年間自宅に引きこもった末に２００４年１１月、両親と姉を殺害したとして殺人罪に問われた土浦市中高津１、無職の飯嶋勝被告（３１歳）に対する判決公判が開かれる予定。３月７日の公判で検察側は死刑を求刑した。論告で検察側は「厳格な父に恐怖とうらみを持っていたという動機は了解可能で、計画的に凶器を準備しており、完全な責任能力がある」と述べた。弁護側は最終弁論で「事件当時、進行した統合失調症で心神喪失の状態だった」として無罪を求めた。起訴状などによると、飯嶋被告は２００４年１１月２４日、父で土浦市立博物館副館長だった一美（５７歳）、母澄子（５４歳）、姉の石津幸江（３１歳）を包丁や金づちで殴るなどして殺害した。飯嶋被告は専門学校中退後、１９歳ごろから自宅に引きこもっていたという。事件を巡っては２度の精神鑑定が行われた。地検の依頼を受けた起訴前鑑定は、責任能力を認める内容だったが、公判で弁護側が求め、裁判所が専任した鑑定は「統合失調症を発症していて、責任能力が著しく損なわれていた」とする内容だった。
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両親と姉殺害男性に無罪判決 判断能力認めず 水戸地裁
2008年6月27日19時27分
茨城県土浦市で０４年１１月、両親と姉の３人を殺害したとして殺人罪に問われた男性被告（３１）の判決公判が２７日、水戸地裁土浦支部であった。伊藤茂夫裁判長は「犯行時に正常な判断能力が残されていたというのは甚だ疑問と言わざるをえない」とし、無罪（求刑・死刑）を言い渡した。
判決によると、男性は０４年１１月２４日、母（当時５４）の胸を包丁で刺し、姉（同３１）の頭を金づちで殴って殺害後、帰宅した父（同５７）も金づちで殴って殺害した。男性は０１年９月から自室に引きこもりがちになり、母親に暴力を振るうなど家族に対し異常な行動をとるようになった。
犯行時の精神状態について、検察側の精神鑑定は男性の責任能力を認めたが、判決は「２４歳ごろから統合失調症にかかり、善悪を判断する能力は著しく損なわれていた」とする弁護側の鑑定結果を採用し、心神喪失状態にあったと結論づけた。
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