Former auto industry titan Carlos Ghosn moved a step closer to freedom Tuesday as a Tokyo court unexpectedly granted him bail after more than three months in a detention cell.
The shock decision came a day after Hironaka, who Ghosn hired just last month in a shake-up of his defence team, told reporters he had filed a"convincing" application for bail that contained fresh elements. Under Japanese law, prosecutors can hold a suspect for up to 22 days while they investigate an allegation, and then can apply for repeated one-month stretches of pre-trial detention for each charge eventually levelled.
Ghosn's previous lead defence attorney was a former prosecutor who"always took the side of the prosecution and did not give good enough arguments to persuade the judge", said Gohara.
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