Yoo Goo Jeong, confirmed life sentence … not guilty of murdering his stepson

Entry 2020.11.05 10:21 | Revision 2020.11.05 11:19

The Supreme Court upheld life in prison for Yu-jeong Yoo, 37, who was sentenced to life in prison in an appeal trial for killing her ex-husband and damaging his body. However, he was found innocent for the murder of his stepson.

On the morning of the 5th, the first part of the Supreme Court (Chief Justice Ki-taek Lee) handed down an appeal sentence against Yu Jeong, who was charged with murder, damage and concealment of the body, and confirmed life imprisonment. About three months after the appeal was filed in July, the ruling on Yu Jeong was upheld.

On March 2 of last year, Yoo Goo-jeong murdered her stepson at her home in Cheongju, Chungbuk, and on May 25 of the same year she was tried for murdering and hiding her ex-husband (36) in a pension in Jeju- yes. . In the first and second trials, he was sentenced to life imprisonment after only acknowledging the charges of murdering his ex-husband Goo Jeong.

The Supreme Court saw that there was no problem with the judicial sentence, convicted of the murder of the ex-husband and acquitted of the murder of the stepson. The question was whether the stepson was killed or not because Yu-jeong Yoo admitted to murdering her ex-husband and destroying and hiding the body.

Prosecutors accused Yu-jeong of climbing onto the back of his sleeping stepson at his home in Chungbuk, turning his head so that the victim’s face was buried in the bed, and pressing hard on his back for about 10 minutes to kill him. As evidence of this, the opinions of forensic scientists were presented that the possibility of being killed by being pressed by a leg, etc. is low, and indirect facts such as Yue Jeong’s suspicious behavior were presented before and after the incident.

However, the first and second trial courts found that Goo-Jeong’s stepson’s murder charges were not guilty and found him not guilty. The Supreme Court also confirmed the court ruling.

The Supreme Court said: “It is impossible to rule out the possibility that the victim was crushed and killed by the father with whom he slept, not by the intentional oppression of the defendant (Ko Yoo-jung). It cannot be concluded that the defendant did so. “He said. The Supreme Court noted that” it is difficult to say that the cause of death (of the stepson) has been proven without a reasonable doubt.

The Supreme Court considered the murder of Yu Yu-jeong’s ex-husband an “intentional murder”. Yoo Goo Jeong’s side has argued that the murder of her ex-husband was an accidental crime. The Supreme Court said: “The defendant’s statement that the victim (ex-husband) tried to rape him on the day of the incident is not reliable.” It is fully admitted that he planned, killed the victim according to plan, and then destroyed and concealed the body. “