Overview
- The Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office filed a Supreme Court appeal challenging the Osaka High Court’s not-guilty ruling for former wife Sudo Saaki.
- Deputy chief prosecutor Yoshihiko Hatanaka said the office appealed to seek a proper judgment at the highest court.
- Wealthy businessman Nozaki Kosuke, known as the 'Don Juan of Kishu,' died in May 2018 at his home in Tanabe from acute methamphetamine poisoning.
- Lower courts acquitted Sudo after finding the evidence did not prove she administered a fatal dose and noting the possibility Nozaki obtained the drug himself.
- The Osaka High Court on March 23 upheld the acquittal despite citing suspicious signs such as a prior web search for 'meth overdose,' and the Supreme Court has not announced a schedule for its review.