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The Supreme Court judged that the city hall officials could not be punished for abandonment of duty because they were unable to promptly deal with the complaints filed by a citizen while handling 1,200 complaints a year. The second division of the Supreme Court (Presiding Judge Kim Sang-hwan) announced on the 27th that it has confirmed the court sentence of acquittal in the appeal of a public official at Boryeong City Hall in Chungnam Province, charged with abandonment of duty. In October 2017, Mr. A was charged with failing to take appropriate action even after receiving a complaint that the owner of the livestock waste treatment facility is being constructed differently from the original design, but the owner is using it without reporting its use. The first trial said, “The construction law violations were relatively minor, and there was no opportunity to correct the result of job abandonment after the death. “The sentence was postponed. It was to the effect that abandonment was acknowledged, but not punishable. However, the second trial judged innocent, saying, “It does not appear that the civil petitioner has consciously neglected or gave up the related work, although it may be considered that it was not done quickly to a satisfactory level.” The judge admitted that Mr. A did not take measures such as going to the site promptly after hearing the oral complaint, but “the point that the business was transferred to Insa-dong and the deadline for handling the business was not sufficient. He said he took into account the fact that he stated that he was in a busy situation where he had to handle a large number of tasks in real time, with more than 1,200 civil complaints received annually.” The Supreme Court also dismissed the appeal, saying, “There is no mistake in misunderstanding the law of proving power in criminal trials, the establishment of abandonment of duty by violating the law of logic and experience in the judgment of the centrifuge.” By Jo Yoon-young, staff reporter [email protected]