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Court Says Convicted Killer Can Seek Appeal After New Evidence Shows He May Have Been Reenacting Scene From Anime

A New Zealand court has decided that a convicted killer can seek an appeal after new evidence showed that he may have been reenacting a scene from an anime. This is a representational image. (Credit: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)

A New Zealand court has decided that a convicted killer can seek an appeal after new evidence showed that he may have been reenacting a scene from an anime.

The lawyers of Gabriel Hikari Yad-Elohim, who was convicted of killing a man in 2017, have argued that he was not in the right state of mind during the attack after they said new evidence showed he had been imitating a character from the anime "Bleach," as reported by the New Zealand Herald.

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