Good on him for escaping. The japanese judicial system is an outright farce and they deserve to be humiliated on the world stage.
How sure are you about the defendant's innocence?
Ghosn is undoubtedly guilty of something, but he wasn't arrested (and subsequently rearrested a half dozen times on the same charge) because of his culpability. It was a Japan Inc. hatchet job through and through.
Bottom line is that he was facing a kangaroo court and a judicial system with a 99% conviction rate. Everybody deserves better than that.