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In February 2017, the so-called ‘Judicial Nongdan’ case in which Yang Seung-tae’s judicial branch made a blacklist of judges.
It was revealed that the court had intervened in individual cases with the Park Geun-hye government as the target of the trial.
For the first time in constitutional history, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was arrested, and 14 former and current high-ranking judges were placed on the defendant’s seat.
But today, all six people, including former Chief Justice Im Seong-geun, were confirmed not guilty.
Judicial Nongdan where the court bowed its head and apologized.
However, they are acquitting their senior judges one after another.
Reporter Yang So-yeon will tell you.
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In 2015, the head of the Sankei Shimbun bureau chief of Japan who wrote a column about former President Park Geun-hye’s ‘Seven Hours of Sewol’,
He was put on trial for defamation.
Senior Chief Judge Im Seong-geun, after receiving the judge’s ruling in advance, said, “That person, the Blue House, will be sad,” and had them amended the verdict.
Judge Lim, who had to stand in court because of this, was condemned in the first instance as “an unconstitutional act that infringed on the independence of judges,” and the second trial lowered the level somewhat, but criticized it as “inappropriate involvement in the judge.”
Nevertheless, the trial result was not guilty.
In the case of ‘abuse of authority’, if one’s authority is used recklessly, it is punishable, but a legal principle that is far from common sense was mobilized.
And, the Supreme Court upheld the innocence of former Chief Judge Im.
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“I think it has made the scope of the abuse of power very narrow. It seems to have a significant impact on whether former or current judges or high-ranking public officials are guilty of a crime.”
Former Chief Judge Lim said, “I pay tribute to your wise judgment.”
With this, the innocence of six former and current high-ranking judges who stood on the accused’s seat due to judicial nonsense was confirmed.
The charges that made them understand the circumstances of the presidential trial were ‘not guilty’, saying, “There is insufficient evidence.”
Even if they reported the investigation information that they learned while examining the arrest warrant to the upper level, they said that it was not a secret leak, and they were acquitted in the 1st and 2nd trials, and even the Supreme Court.
However, only two judges were found guilty in the first and second trials, who were charged with trying to break up a small group of critics in the court and also on some charges of intervening in the trial.
Yang Seung-tae, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who once served as the chief of the Korean judiciary and knows better than anyone else about the law and trial procedures.
As a rule, we have already been conducting more than 200 trials for the third year in the first trial only by listening to the recording of the witness newspaper saying that we will check all the evidence in court.
This is Soyeon Yang from MBC News.
Video coverage: Kim Doo-young / Video editing: Lee Jeong-geun
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