The excellent suicide_gemini has posted a translation of KISAKI's sentencing for tax evasion.
Go read it if you care.
Here's a quick summary of the verdict:
- 1 year and 6 months of jail time, suspended for 4 years (meaning: he's not going to jail, but on probation for 4 years)
- 12,000,000 yen fine
This turned out to be a criminal charge after all. This is a pretty damn important detail to have left out. Ugh, I hate it when newspapers don't specify the nature of a lawsuit and make me wonder.
KISAKI got off rather easily, too. Personally, I would not have been so merciful had I been the judge. He probably got the suspension as part of a plea bargain since he did plead guity. Well, at least he's a free man now until he commits some infraction, or misdemeanor, or lesser included offense, or whatever necessary to trigger the original sentence under the Japanese judicial system.
Still, suspended jail sentence = victory for KISAKI
Here's KISAKI's blog entry the day after the court appearance (this is where you find the picture of him with men in suits with briefcases).
where's this photo of Kisaki with "men in suits" on the courthouse steps? i'd love to see it!
Posted by: go | 03/31/2007 at 09:37 AM
Check my link to KISAKI's blog entry at the bottom of my post.
Posted by: Aural Candy | 03/31/2007 at 09:38 AM
i just came back to say i found it, but you already replied so now i have to say thank you too!??! diabolical! ;)
[warms up photoshop] [insert ghostbusters backpack sound]
Posted by: go | 03/31/2007 at 09:41 AM
Haha!
Posted by: Aural Candy | 03/31/2007 at 09:42 AM
And, my link goes to the translation of that entry. Should help out the non-Japanese speakers out there. :D
Posted by: Aural Candy | 03/31/2007 at 09:43 AM
Good thing he didn't try to pull this in America, or that 1 year, 6 months would've really been prison time with none of that suspension mumbo-jumbo. I agree that he got off easy, must've had a good lawyer.
Posted by: Two eLs | 03/31/2007 at 10:56 AM
Actually, suspension is one of the sentencings available under the US criminal procedure. Tax evasion is a white collar crime. While the convicted can indeed be incarcerated, the judge can simply suspend the sentence.
Usually, judges in the US suspend sentencings for 2 reasons:
1. The convicted is a first-time offender
2. Suspension is part of the agreement in the plea bargain
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