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 White paper on crime 2006 Part 3/Chapter 4/Section 3/1 

1 Hearings pertaining to public prosecutor's application

  This Act covers (1) persons who are not prosecuted but are found to have committed any of the subject acts (arson, forcible indecency, rape, homicide, injury, or robbery) and are recognized as being insane or with diminished capacity or (2) persons who are found, by final and conclusive judgments, not guilty on the ground of being insane or given a mitigated sentence on the ground of having diminished capacity (excluding the case of being sentenced to imprisonment with or without work without suspension of execution of sentence). For such persons, a collegiate court body in a district court consisting of a judge and a mental health examiner (psychiatrist) shall, on application of a public prosecutor, hold a hearing with regard to the necessity of medical treatment and the details of such treatment.
  Table 3-4-3-2 shows persons for whom prosecutors applied for hearings in 2005 by type of acts and by type of criminal disposition.

Table 3-4-3-2  Number of persons for whom prosecutors applied for hearings by type of acts and by type of criminal disposition (July 15, 2005 - December 31, 2005)

  Table 3-4-3-3 shows persons finally disposed at hearings in district courts pertaining to public prosecutor's application in 2005.

Table 3-4-3-3  Number of persons finally disposed at hearings in district courts pertaining to public prosecutor's application (July 15, 2005 - December 31, 2005)