Judge Shin Gwang-ryul, Jo Eui-yeon, and Seong Chang-ho were not guilty of the second trial (comprehensive)

The incumbent judges, who were handed over to the trial in the case of the `Judongdan suspicion’, but were acquitted at the first trial, were also acquitted at the appeal trial.

The 8th Criminal Division of the Seoul High Court (Director Judge Lee Gyun-yong, Lee Seung-cheol and Lee Byeong-hee) was acquitted as in the first trial at the appeal trial of chief judges Shin Kwang-ryul, Jo Eui-yeon, and Seong Chang-ho, who were handed over to the trial on charges of leaking secrets for public service.

Earlier, the prosecutors had requested two years in prison for both the first and second trial judges, and one year in prison for the chief judges Cho Eui-yeon and Sung Chang-ho. Judge Shin and others were charged with collecting the prosecution’s investigation situation and future plans through warrant case records and reporting it to the court administration office in 2016 to stop an investigation targeting judges at the time of’Jung Unho Gate’.

At that time, Chief Judge Shin was the Chief Criminal Chief Judge of the Seoul Central District Court, and Chief Judge Jo Eui-yeon and Seong Chang-ho were judges in charge of overtime. In order to prevent the expansion of the investigation into the judiciary, the prosecution turned them over to trial after receiving orders from the court administration and systematically identifying and leaking the investigation secrets.

However, the court of the first trial sentenced them innocence, saying that their organizational conspiracy was not recognized, and that the leaked contents were not classified as public service secrets.

The judgment of the Court of Appeal was the same. The court said, “There is not enough evidence that the defendants tried to stop the investigation of Jung Unho.” I judged it.

In the part where Judge Shin made a related report to Lim Jong-heon, deputy chief of the Court Administration Department, he ruled that “it is only an internal act within the state agency, and does not correspond to secret leakage for public affairs.”

The judge said, “Some of the contents of Shin Gwang-ryul’s report are beyond the allowable range.” It was reported to,” he said. Former Deputy General Manager Lim also thought that the information was used for the purpose.

At the same time, he explained that both Judge Shin and former Deputy General Manager Lim are obligated to keep confidentiality in their duties, and that it cannot be regarded as a secret leak for public service unless it is acknowledged that the leak will be through a specific person.

Meanwhile, prior to the sentence, the judge said, “There is no code of conduct that the judge in charge of warrants should take as a standard, and the reason is that the court did not lead in the right direction enough to cope with this situation.

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