In yet another blow to the Okinawa prefectural government’s efforts to stop land reclamation work at Henoko, the Supreme Court on Dec. 8 rejected its latest legal action.
The First Petty Bench of the Supreme Court on Nov. 21 for the first time overturned a guilty verdict of murder that was reached under the citizen-judge system and upheld by a high court.
It is the first time a guilty ruling reached by a district court under the lay judge system has been thrown out by the top court after being upheld by an appeals court.