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Super UserBuckeyeTom   
He was released from prison on March 27, 2014. There is a lot of sentiment to not retry him at all. If that happens, how will this question settle? Complete freedom without a retrial is not an option.

In announcing the decision to free him, the presiding judge, Hiroaki Murayama, said in a statement that “the possibility of his innocence has become clear to a respectable degree, and it is unbearably unjust to prolong the defendant’s detention any further

Super Userkruijs (1)  
if it is announced that no trial will take place although the Shizuoka District Court had ordered one, this question will be void.