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| Subject: Statist insanity continues: 66-year-old Japanese man, jailed for a full year, over a 12 cent theft Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:37 pm | |
| A court in Japan has jailed a 66-year-old man for a year for stealing 10 yen (12 cents) from a temple offering box, reducing his original sentence by eight months.
A district court ordered Masafumi Tsuruhara to spend 20 months in prison earlier this year after being caught taking the coin at Kongou-buji Temple in Wakayama, western Japan.
Tsuruhara appealed to Osaka High Court, insisting he had just been "playing with it", press reports said on Friday.
A judge on Thursday said the sentence was "too heavy", they added. A court spokeswoman confirmed the jail term had been reduced to one year.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/japanese-man-jailed-for-12-cent-theft-20121221-2bryd.html#ixzz2FjyURGVE
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