裁判員事件に限定検討　１８、１９歳起訴後の実名広報―改正少年法施行で・最高検

　事件を起こした１８、１９歳を「特定少年」と位置付け、起訴されると実名報道を可能にする改正少年法が４月に施行されるのに伴い、最高検が、裁判員制度の対象事件に限定して、起訴時に被告の実名を広報する方向で検討していることが２０日、法務・検察関係者への取材で分かった。２月にも運用方針として全国の検察庁に通知する。（2022/01/20-19:49）

Japan's Supreme Public Prosecutors Office is considering identifying 18- and 19-year-old offenders by name only when they stand trial under the lay judge system, informed sources said Thursday.
   From April, 18- and 19-year-olds charged with crimes will be regarded as specified juveniles whose real names can be publicized at the time of indictment based on the revised juvenile law.
   The revised law will expand the scope of criminal charges against minors subject to prosecution from homicide to robbery, rape, arson and others punishable by at least one-year imprisonment.
   According to the sources, judicial authorities and the supreme prosecutors office started discussing limiting the name disclosure in the wake of parliamentary resolutions calling on the government and the Supreme Court to give sufficient considerations to the specified juvenile offenders' rehabilitation.
   Specifically, the office is looking to restrict publicizing the real names of 18- to 19-year-old offenders to those indicted for crimes of high public interests subject to lay judge trials, such as murder and robbery resulting in death.