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Lee Min-geol, former head of the court’s administration office, who completed the first sentence of the trial.▶ Click here to enlarge the view
Former Chief Justice Yang Seung-tae was found guilty of the first convictions of former judges who had been handed over to trial after being implicated in “Judongdan”.
The 32nd Division of the Criminal Settlement of the Seoul Central District Court (Deputy Judge Yoon Jong-seop) was imprisoned by Lee Min-geol, former head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the Court Administration Office, charged on the 23rd of obstruction of the exercise of the right to abuse of authority, and imprisoned for two years on probation after 10 months, and Gyu-jin Lee, a former permanent member of the Supreme Court of the Yang Hyeong Committee. Each of them was sentenced to three years of probation in one year and six months.
After investigating Judicial Nongdan’s allegations, the prosecution prosecuted 14 former and current judges, and so far, 10 have been sentenced to the first trial. These are the first two convicted.
The cases for which the first trial decision has not been made so far are the cases of former Supreme Court Chief Yang, Park Byeong-dae, and former Chief of Court Administration Ko Young-han, and Lim Jong-heon. , former Deputy Chief of Court. Management. Those accused of playing a key role in the judicial nongdan have a lengthy hearing due to the large amount of records and evidence.
The judiciary was guilty of charges of attempting to dissolve a meeting of judges critical of the judicial administration such as former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Seung-tae, such as the International Human Rights Law Research Society, and of capturing the judgment of the Judicial power regarding the conclusion of the case in which the legislator was the accused (obstruction of the exercise of the right to abuse ex officio), I admitted it.
The former member of the permanent committee was guilty of intervening in a judicial process to confirm the status of the members of the former Unified Progress Party dissolved according to the decision of the Constitutional Court, and of mobilizing the judges assigned to collect information within the constitution ( obstruction of the exercise of the right to abuse ex officio) Tried as.
The judge criticized the former chief as “a serious crime that could raise doubts about the impartiality of the judicial office.” Regarding the former incumbent legislator, he pointed out that “being a judge alone, the charges are serious because he interferes twice in the exercise of jurisdiction.
However, he added that the sentence was decided taking into account that the two men worked diligently in the investigation and the trial, and that each took into account the fact that they had been judges for almost 30 years.
Immediately after the sentence was passed, Jeon Lee indicated her intention to appeal to reporters asking for their heart, saying, “I am still on trial, so I will tell you in court.”
Former Jeonju District Court Chief Judge Chang-hyun Bang and former Seoul High Court Chief Shim Sang-cheol were acquitted. All of them serve as regular judges.
Deputy Judge Bang was charged with disclosing the sentence and motive for the ruling of former Tongjin Party legislators at the request of the court’s administration office, while Jeon Shim unfairly assigned the administrative litigation appeals of former Tongjin Party legislators to a specific court. in charge of instructing.
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