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to defend their case, which went on for years, as the legal definition of insanity and the qualifications necessary for a doctor to declare a person mentally incompetent were not yet defined in
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initially decided to seize the Sōma territories, but through the intervention of several senior retainers (including their former arch-enemy Data
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him by poison. However, after an autopsy failed to find any evidence, Nishikori was countersued for slander and was sentenced to four years in prison.
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region and captured
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Toshitane's incarceration, for the purposes of embezzling the monies of the former domain. The Sōma clan hired the famous lawyer
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the domain was relatively small and had negligible military forces. However, following the defeat of the
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