Word: kamiizumi
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable." Judge Minoru Kamiizumi agreed, set Merten free because the marine "had been drinking whisky for several hours, showed symptoms of pathological intoxication and was in a state of mental unsoundness...
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