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Wife of ex-judge in info leakage scandal gets 2-yr term.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 24-DEC-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
FUKUOKA, Dec. 19 Kyodo

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The Fukuoka District Court on Wednesday sentenced the wife of a former Fukuoka High Court judge, who resigned over an information leakage scandal related to his wife's case, to two years in prison for threatening a woman she considered a rival in a love affair and the woman's husband last year.

Presiding Judge Toshiyuki Tani said in handing down the ruling, ''The defendant committed the crime over the long term and the crime...

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