[사회]Victims of’Yakchon Ogeori Murder Folded’ Win State Compensation Lawsuit…

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21 years ago in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, a victim who was accused of the so-called’Yakchon 5-geori murder case’ won a lawsuit for damages against the government.

The judge said the victims suffered irreparable damage from the torts of state agencies and pointed out that the same should not be repeated again.

Let’s connect reporters to hear more details. Reporter Na Hye-in!

At the end of a retrial three years ago, he was confirmed innocent and attracted a lot of attention.

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Yes, Mr. Choi and his family, who had been imprisoned for 10 years for the murder of Yakchon Ogeori, won some of the lawsuits filed against the country for damages.

The Seoul Central District Court ruled that the government and the police officers and prosecutors who were in charge of the investigation at the time should pay the Choi’s family about 1.6 billion won in total.

About 1.3 billion won for Choi himself, 250 million won for her mother, and 50 million won for her younger sister were recognized as alimony.

The court judged that the police at the time conducted an unscientific and illogical investigation of the innocent Choi, who was a socially underprivileged person, such as illegal confinement and harsh behavior, and the prosecution’s investigation command was also unreasonable.

At the same time, Mr. Choi had suffered irreparable damage throughout his life, and asked for compensation, saying that he needed to raise awareness that such illegal acts by such state agencies should not be repeated again.

The Yakchon 5-geori murder, which was also produced as a movie, was a taxi driver killed by a weapon in the Yakchon 5-geori, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do in the early morning of August 10, 2000.

Choi, who was fifteen at the time, was accused of being the culprit, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and was released for maturity in 2010.

It was revealed that Choi made a false confession after harsh acts such as illegal confinement and assault by the police at the beginning of the investigation.

Choi, who requested a retrial after release, was finally convicted of acquittal in Gwangju High Court in 2016, 16 years after the incident, and was not framed.

Choi did not appear in court today, and attorney Park Joon-young, who was in charge of the retrial, evaluated it as a meaningful ruling in that the state’s torts and individual responsibilities were recognized.

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This is a representative case of judicial damage. Were the real criminals or those in charge of the investigation punished?

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Jinbeom Kim Mo is sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbery and murder in the Supreme Court in 2018.

A full-scale re-investigation took place only after Choi was found not guilty at the retrial. As the statute of prosecution for murder was abolished by the so-called’Tae Wan Yi Act’, punishment was possible unlike the serial murder case of Lee Chun-jae.

However, none of the police officers who acted harshly to Choi at the time or the prosecution officials who commanded the insolvent investigation were punished.

In addition, Jinbeom Kim was already caught by the police in 2003, when Choi was unjustly imprisoned, but the prosecutors dismissed the arrest warrant and were imprisoned for conducting the investigation and being charged without charge.

For this, in 2017, Prosecutor General Moon Moo-il admitted and apologized, but the criminal responsibility of prosecutors and police officers at that time passed the statute of limitations and could not be held accountable.

So far, the Seoul Central District Court has delivered it.

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