According to the wife of 57-year-old Katsuhisa Omori, who met with him in a detention house, Omori said he will "fight by filing an appeal immediately," describing the ruling as "a crime of those in power that infringes on justice." Omori was convicted of carrying out the bombing of the local government office building in Sapporo solely on the basis of circumstantial evidence.

He was sentenced to death by the district court in 1983. Omori pleaded not guilty all the way to the Supreme Court, which rejected his appeal in 1994.

The Japan Times Weekly: March 24, 2007
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