friday's decision means the mandatory indictments of former tepco chairman tsunehisa katsumata and former vice presidents sakae muto and ichiro takekuro for negligence resulting in death and injury. court appointed lawyers will act as prosecutors in the trial. in its decision, the panel said tepco should have taken measures to protect the plant from tsunami and flood triggered accidents after projecting a 15.7 meter tsunami hitting the plant. the precautions, a serious accident like the one in march 2011 could have been avoided. the leader of the local residents says she believes the court will determine who is responsible for the disaster and exercise fair judgment. >> translator: 110,000 people are still unable to return to their homes. based on the evidence, it's clear that tepco's former executives are responsible for the accident. >> the residents' lawyer said if the former officials had escaped indictment, the real cause of the accident would have been covered up forever. he said he hoped that the trial will find out more about what caused the nuclear accident. tepco's president dec