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A request for a retrial may be filed against a final and binding judgment of guilt, when filed in the interests of the person who has been found guilty, and when:
再審の請求は、左の場合において、有罪の言渡をした確定判決に対して、その言渡を受けた者の利益のために、これをすることができる。
It has been proven through a final and binding judgment that documentary or material evidence which served as evidence in the original judgment is false or has been altered;
原判決の証拠となつた証拠書類又は証拠物が確定判決により偽造又は変造であつたことが証明されたとき。
It has been proven through a final and binding judgment that testimony, expert evaluation, interpretation, or translation which served as evidence in the original judgment was false;
原判決の証拠となつた証言、鑑定、通訳又は翻訳が確定判決により虚偽であつたことが証明されたとき。
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It has been proven through a final and binding judgment that a person who has been found guilty was falsely accused; provided, however, that this shall only be when such person was found guilty on the basis of such false accusation;
有罪の言渡を受けた者を誣告した罪が確定判決により証明されたとき。但し、誣告により有罪の言渡を受けたときに限る。
A decision which served as evidence in the original judgment has been altered by final and binding judgment;
原判決の証拠となつた裁判が確定裁判により変更されたとき。
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With regard to cases where a person has been found guilty of criminal infringement of a patent right, utility model right, design right, or trademark right, a trial decision that voided such right has become final, or a judgment that voided such right has been rendered;
特許権、実用新案権、意匠権又は商標権を害した罪により有罪の言渡をした事件について、その権利の無効の審決が確定したとき、又は無効の判決があつたとき。
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Clear evidence which should make the court render an acquittal or a dismissal for judicial bar to the person who has been found guilty, or make the court render a remission of punishment for the person to whom punishment has been rendered or make the court find a lesser crime than the crime which was found in the original judgment, has been newly discovered; or
有罪の言渡を受けた者に対して無罪若しくは免訴を言い渡し、刑の言渡を受けた者に対して刑の免除を言い渡し、又は原判決において認めた罪より軽い罪を認めるべき明らかな証拠をあらたに発見したとき。
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It has been proven through a final and binding judgment that a judge who participated in the original judgment, a judge who participated in making documentary evidence which served as evidence in the original judgment, or the public prosecutor, public prosecutor's assistant officer, or judicial police official who compiled a document or gave a statement which served as evidence in the original judgment, committed a crime with regard to his/her duty in the case; provided, however, that when prosecution against such judge, public prosecutor, public prosecutor's assistant officer, or judicial police official was instituted before rendition of the original judgment, this shall be limited to when the original court did not know such fact.
原判決に関与した裁判官、原判決の証拠となつた証拠書類の作成に関与した裁判官又は原判決の証拠となつた書面を作成し若しくは供述をした検察官、検察事務官若しくは司法警察職員が被告事件について職務に関する罪を犯したことが確定判決により証明されたとき。但し、原判決をする前に裁判官、検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員に対して公訴の提起があつた場合には、原判決をした裁判所がその事実を知らなかつたときに限る。
judicial police officialmachine translation
「司法警察職員」
Judicial police officers (司法警察員) and judicial police constables (司法巡査) together.
Defined inArticle 39, paragraph (3)
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.