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The Supreme Court dismisses the defendant's appeal, and the 18-year prison sentence is now finalized.
The Supreme Court has rejected the defendant's appeal in the trial of a man charged with dangerous driving resulting in death or injury, among other crimes, in connection with a 2017 Tomei Expressway road rage accident that killed a couple .
The decision was made on the 19th, and the first and second trial verdicts that sentenced the man to 18 years in prison will be finalized.
Charged with dangerous driving resulting in death or injury in the "Tomei Expressway tailgating accident"
Kazuho Ishibashi (34) is accused of dangerous driving resulting in death and injury, among other charges, for tailgating a van carrying Yoshihisa Hagiyama (45 at the time) and his wife and family of four on the Tomei Expressway in 2017, causing the vehicle to stop on the highway, resulting in a rear-end collision with a truck following behind, killing the couple.
Both the first and second trials found Ishibashi's aggressive driving to be dangerous driving.
The Yokohama District Court sentenced Ishibashi to 18 years in prison in the first instance, but the Tokyo High Court later overturned the first instance ruling, stating that "illegal procedures had been used in the first instance," and ordered a retrial .
In a subsequent retrial, the Yokohama District Court sentenced him to 18 years in prison, and the Tokyo High Court also rejected Ishibashi's appeal, stating that there was no error in the first-instance ruling, and sentenced him to 18 years in prison.
After the Tokyo High Court's ruling, defendant Ishibashi told the judge
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