pro bono – seicho matsumoto
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Otsuka knew that Kiriko resented him and he understood her feelings, but he didn’t have the courage to try and set the record straight after all this time.
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He was not the judge who had handed down the guilty verdict to her brother, and he was perfectly entitled not to take on a case.
That was the logical standpoint, but Kiriko seemed to believe that the decision of the eminent criminal defense attorney Kinzo Otsuka not to represent her had directly brought about her brother’s guilty verdict. This had dealt Otsuka quite a psychological blow.
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