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Criminal Records Podcast - The Yakuza Rocket Launcher Case

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Hong Kong Drug Smuggling Case - A Hung Jury Verdict?

In the end, tapinaco and aito are acquitted. Only onep son is convicted. A cogitakoshe is convicted on some counts of drug and gun smuggling in a later trial because his outcome is a hung jury. The only one to get any real jail time, somewhat hilariously, is mariama koichi, the yakusa who flipped over to the prosecution in exchange for consideration; he plead guilty as a part of that. So he is not acquitted, and ends up being sentenced in october 19 86 to six years in prison, because, again, he'd already plead guilty. One juror doesn't realize how big the yamaguchi gomi

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