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The Supreme Court on March 24 overturned a former Vietnamese technical intern trainee’s conviction for abandoning the bodies of her stillborn twins, ruling that her actions did not constitute the crime of abandonment.
Le Thi Thuy Linh placed the bodies in a cardboard box and left them on a shelf in her room for around 33 hours, along with a letter of apology.
Lawyers for a former Vietnamese technical intern trainee found guilty of abandoning the bodies of her stillborn twins argued at the Supreme Court that her conviction should be overturned because she intended to hold a funeral for them.
An appeals court upholds an acquittal of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. who were accused of failing to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
The Supreme Court has signaled it might overturn a guilty verdict against a Vietnamese technical intern trainee who abandoned her stillborn twins.