Tokuei Hanasaki was the first team from Saitama Prefecture to conquer the Summer Koshien in 2017, and was a lay judge against Chimaru Tsuyoshi, a 21-year-old defendant who caused a homicide-robbery in April 2019 immediately after leaving the university. the trial The trial was held at Chiba District Court (Judge Keiichiro Sakata) on the 4th, and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison (6 years in prison).

The defendant Chimaru denies being involved in the theft of license plates caused by his colleagues before the robbery and murder case. He did not learn about the murder-robbery case until shortly before the crime and insisted that he would be killed if he escaped, but Judge Sakata ruled that the robbery was “a conspiracy to steal at the time of the crime and a joint crime was established.” .. Regarding homicide-robbery, “The fear of having a gangster behind is not emotionally incomprehensible, but it has a knife and duct tape and plays a role in binding the victim, which does not justify a serious crime. No”, dismissed. .

It was taken into account that the victim was reimbursed 5 million yen and that Tokuharu Hanasaki’s director, Takashi Iwai, decided to get a job at a real estate agent in Osaka, and that the post-rehabilitation environment was at its best. place. He did not accept the suspended sentence requested by the defense, saying that “reflection is not enough, how to underestimate the implication.” The defendant Chimaru with a mask turned to the front and heard the reason for the decision, and did not change his expression.

The defendant Hayato Yoshizoe (23), protagonist of accomplices, was sentenced to eight years in prison (11 years in prison). The other two defendants were sentenced to 5 years in prison and 6 years in prison (7 years in prison for both).