news conference: He replaced a group led by former local prosecutor Motonari Otsuru with one overseen by Junichiro Hironaka, who is known for aggressive tactics defending high-profile clients such as a former senior bureaucrat accused of corruption, according to The Japan Times. Hironaka will hold his first news conference as Ghosn's lawyer on Wednesday. He's lost two requests for bail and faces as many as 10 years in prison if convicted. ; Confronting a legal system with a 99 percent conviction rate, Ghosn overhauled his legal team last week. By hiring a lead lawyer nicknamed The Razor, Ghosn is betting that an attorney with a history of challenging the insular Japanese legal world can make him a free man again. Hironaka is the type of lawyer who will thoroughly fight the prosecutors' charge. Otsuru was miscast because he's not the type of lawyer that will take a combative stance against the prosecutors and likely couldn't maintain a relationship of trust with Ghosn, said Nobuo Gohara, a lawyer and former prosecutor in Japan.
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