/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>25049416

I too wish to be tortured by Eiki in my afterlife

>>22519671
>>22499471

And police can hold you for 23 days to force a confession before applying charges. During these 23 days you are not allowed access to a lawyer. If they decide that there are multiple charges they can then arrest you again and start 23 day detention from start. If you want examples of this google Carlos Ghosn.

After detention two things can happen: first they simply let you go by not indicting without saying sorry for making you lose your job and reputation with this arrest.

Second is they file charges and they will find you guilty with 99,8% probability. Confession is the king of evidence in Japan and 23 days is plenty for professionals to gain one from an ordinary citizen who doesn't know law that well, regardless if did break a law or is innocent suspect.

Prosecutors basically never proceed unless they're 100% sure they win so that they uphold the ridiculously high 99,8% conviction rate. Confession accounts for vast majority of evidence used to find an individual guilty. You don't want to be that one prosecutor who failed to get a conviction since that's the end of your career. Judges who don't give a guilty judgement will also find their careers negatively affected by this even though they're supposed to be independent.

A good but unsettling movie about the subject is それでもボクはやってない (Sore demo boku ha yattenai). It's about a man wrongly accused of groping in train and finding himself in the meat grinder that is Japanese justice system.