Why is it important to understand how Japanese procedural law distinguishes between the terms “defendant” (or accused) and “suspect”? Explain how the situation is improving for suspects
What will be an ideal response?
Japan’s constitution gives persons who have been arrested or detained (i.e., who are suspects) the privilege, but not the right, to counsel. Because counsel is only a privilege, the government does not have to pay for the suspects’ counsel and the result is that those indigents at the suspect stage seldom have counsel during the investigation/arrest process.
Persons who have been formally accused of a crime (i.e., who are defendants) have a constitutional right to counsel at government expense.
The situation for suspects improved in 2006 with the establishment of the Japan Legal Support Center, which essentially created a public defense system for criminal suspects—if they were charged with serious offenses.
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