[사회]’Children’s entrance exam’ Jung Kyung-Shim This week’s appeal trial begins… Will the’claim innocence’ strategy change?

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The appeal trial trial of Professor Kyung-Shim Chung, the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kook, who is serving jail after being sentenced to imprisonment in the first trial for alleged irregularities in the entrance examination of children and alleged private equity funds, will begin this week.

At the first trial, all charges of corruption in the child’s entrance examination, which Professor Jeong denied, were all convicted, but I am interested in what kind of judgment to be made at the appeal trial.

Reporter Lim Seong-ho reports.

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At the end of August 2, when former Justice Minister Cho Kook was ahead of a personnel hearing, the prosecutors initiated a forcible investigation as a sign of a massive seizure search.

[조 국 / 당시 법무부 장관 후보자(2019년 8월) : 인사청문회를 앞두고 검찰 수사가 개시돼서 조금 당황스럽습니다.]

Late at night on the day of the personnel hearing of former Minister Cho, his wife, Professor Jeong Gyeong-Shim, was charged with forging her daughter’s citation for Tong Yang University.

In the course of more than a year of trial, Professor Chung denied the allegations, but the first trial court sentenced him to four years in jail and imprisoned the court.

All of the charges against child entrance examination were convicted, and some charges were also convicted, such as investing in stocks using undisclosed information and destroying evidence.

At the same time, Professor Jeong accused him of not reflecting on the whole trial and rather for causing pain to those who tell the truth.

Professor Chung’s side immediately objected and appealed.

[김칠준 / 정경심 교수 변호인(지난해 12월) : 법정에서 진실을 밝히려던 노력이 오히려 피고인 형량에 아주 불리한 사유로 언급되면서 마치 괘씸죄 같은 게 적용된 것 아닌가….]

The appeal hearing will begin tomorrow, three months after the first trial sentence.

Prof. Jeong is not expected to appear in court on the first day of preparation for the trial as there is no obligation to attend the accused.

However, the observation that the charges will be completely denied as in the first trial, rather than attempting to be commuted by reflecting on the appeal trial, is dominant.

This is because former Minister Cho, her husband, is also being tried in the first trial on charges of conspiring for corruption in their children’s entrance exams.

Previously, Professor Chung’s first trial court ruled that Cho was involved in his daughter’s entrance exams during the sentence.

Recently, the Open Democratic Party representative Choi Kang-wook was convicted of interfering with the university admissions affairs by issuing a false intern certificate to the son of former Minister Cho as a lawyer.

Former Minister Cho’s child entrance examination irregularities have not resumed for more than three months since the end of last year due to the spread of Corona 19.

In other trials, the alleged conspiracy of former Minister Cho’s admissions corruption has been mentioned several times, and interest is focused on what kind of judgment will be made in the trial of Professor Chung’s appeal.

This is YTN Seongho Lim.

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