The Prosecution Abandoned Submitting The Final
Statement
We have only a week left before the court decision is read out on the trial of the
"counterfeit-US-bill case" carried out at the District Court of Chonbuli,
Thailand.
Within 15 days after the trial was concluded in May 15, both the prosecution and
the defense had to hand in the concluding statement respectively by writing to the
chief judge, who will then write out a judgement paper, based on the statements,
all trial records and evidence.
But wait!!! The prosecution spent the 15 days without submitting the final statement.
I cannot believe it.
For one and a half years after the trial was forwarded to the stage where the defense
started offering counterevidence, the prosecution became fast discouraged. They often
missed the point when they cross-examined our proof. Sometimes they left their seats
to disappear from the court, or looked quite displeased if they remained in the seats
at all. I felt that the prosecution were getting nowhere because they seemed at a
loss on what basis to furnish evidence of TANAKA's guilt and how to consolidate criminal
facts if any.
However, I thought that the prosecution would prepare themselves for the trial again
to such an extent that they might write out a concluding statement to go against
the proof provided by the defense, because this is so important a case. On the contrary,
they did nothing disadvantageous to us. What on earth had happened to the prosecution?
I was a little bit confused, and I still am.
I am not sure, but because the prosecution are extremely positive that they have
produced sufficient evidence to establish TANAKA's guilt, did they think our proof
didn't deserve to be considered, but to be ignored? Or did they just give up winning
this case?
Judging from what I have seen in person for the last one and a half years, the latter
is a natural answer. When Mr. HAYASHI Shoji and Mr. KODAMA Shogo took the witness
stand to testify, I can still remember, the prosecutors were sometimes flurried and
sometimes frowning. They even left the seats unable to make any effective counterattack
when the frame-up of TANAKA's fingerprint on the counterfeit bill was overthrown.
No one could say that they were confident that they had sufficient evidence to establish
TANAKA's guilt.
Though evidence after evidence of TANAKA's guilt was rebutted to collapse, the prosecution
must do something to save their honor. So I was directing my attention to what their
statement would be like. However, they did not submit any concluding statement to
the chief judge after all. Still I cannot believe it. But I've got the information
from some reliable source related to the prosecution. So this is undeniable. The
prosecution have really lost their fighting spirit, and the final gong is sounding.
In case TANAKA is found not guilty--of course, we are sure that he will be found
not--, it is not because the court judges that the evidence furnished by the prosecution
to establish his guilt is insufficient, but probably because the court judges that
the proof provided by the defense verifies that the evidence furnished by the prosecution
was a frame-up.
traslated by fox-oku@egeres-han
