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Lawyer: Suspect in Abe assassination to face murder charge

FILE - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laughs while speaking at the Center for Strategic International Studies in Washington on Feb. 22, 2013. Tetsuya Yamagami, Abe's suspected assassin, is expected to face murder charges Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Japan's highest profile case in recent years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) FILE - Tetsuya Yamagami, front right, holding a weapon, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara, western Japan, Friday, July 8, 2022. Yamagami, the suspected assassin of Japan’s former leader Shinzo Abe, is expected to face murder charges Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Japan's highest profile case in recent years. (Nara Shimbun/Kyodo News via AP, File) FILE - Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged assassin of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, exits a police station in Nara, western Japan, on July 10, 2022, on his way to local prosecutors' office. Yamagami is expected to face murder charges Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Japan's highest profile case in recent years. (Nobuki Ito/Kyodo News via AP, File)
Lawyer: Suspect in Abe assassination to face murder charge