Lee Min-geol, former head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the Court Administration Department, who was involved in the suspicion of’Judongdan’, is attending a sentence at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Newsis
Lee Min-geol, former head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the Court Administration Department, and Lee Gyu-jin, former chief of the Supreme Court’s sentencing committee, were convicted in the first trial and sentenced to probation. This is the first time the conviction was convicted in the trial of former and current high-ranking judges who were accused of abuse of judicial administration when Yang Seung-tae was the former chief of the Supreme Court.
In contrast to the fact that 10 out of 14 former and incumbent judges who were prosecuted were not guilty of ex officio abuse due to limitations in the interpretation and application of the law, this conviction was the result of actively applying and admitting ex officio abuse crimes to members of the Judicial Nongshim. It makes sense. Although it is a mansijitan, a more severe legal condemnation for the violation of the judicial administration’s independence in the trial should be made, and the medicine used by the judiciary should be made.
The 23rd Department of the Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Agreement admitted most of the charges of ex officio abuse applied to the two former judges. Jeon Lee tried to break up a meeting of judges critical of judicial administration when he was former Supreme Court Chief Yang Seung-tae, and was accused of grasping the judgment of the case court where the lawmaker was the accused. The judiciary decided that the charges of intervening in the administrative litigation trials of former Tongjin Party local council members and collecting information inside the constitution by mobilizing dispatched judges constituted ex officio abuse.
The independence of the judiciary established by the Constitution can only be realized when the independent and fair trial of judges is guaranteed. Even if the judicial administration is exercised, the legal punishment is a natural result as it is a serious crime that attempts to influence the judgment in any form or undermines the foundation for the existence of the judiciary.
The judiciary announced on this day that the public offering relationship between the two and former Supreme Court chiefs was recognized. It is early to decide whether it will affect Yang’s first trial, but it is clear that there is a possibility of guilty. The Judicial Nongdan Incident is a shameful incident of the judiciary, which broke trust in the judiciary and sparked national disappointment and anger. The judiciary hopes that the remaining trials of former and current high-ranking judges, including the former president Yang, will proceed strict and promptly, as an opportunity for the judiciary to transform itself as soon as possible.
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