Prosecutors Believe Court Ruling Dropping Lee Jae-Myung’s Arrest Warrant was Political
Here is what prosecutors have to say about a Korean court dropping the arrest warrant against Lee Jae-myung this week:
In the left photo, ruling People Power Party Chairman Kim Gi-hyeon, left, and other party lawmakers hold banners condemning a court’s decision to reject a warrant for the arrest of main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Chairman Lee Jae-myung, during a lawmakers’ meeting at the National Assembly, Wednesday. In the right photo, DPK floor leader Hong Ihk-pyo, front, applauds with other party members during a lawmakers’ meeting at the Assembly, Wednesday. Yonhap
Following the dismissal of the warrant, prosecutors said that the decision could have been affected by Lee’s political status.
“There seems to be a stark difference between the prosecution and the court regarding the decision and its grounds,” Prosecutor-General Lee One-seok told reporters Wednesday.
“Although the court recognized the prosecution’s claims of illegalities, it apparently focused on providing defense rights to Lee based on his status as the chairman of a political party.” He added that judicial matters should not be influenced by political factors.
“An arrest warrant is nothing more than part of the process of investigating crimes, and the dismissal does not mean innocence,” Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon said.
“Even if a politician commits a crime, the judiciary does not and should not become political,” Han added. “I believe the prosecution will continue its investigation without being swayed.”
Korea Times
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And here’s what I say about those “prosecutors”. Yoon, who was a prosecutor himself, and who is from that same group of “prosecutors”, these “prosecutors” are turning South Korea into a Republic of Prosecutions based on political rivalry.
Give it a rest, GI.
The arrest warrant is incorrect. It’s purpose is to end his opposition political thetrics.
He has not been convicted of a crime. He is not a flight risk. He is unlikely to destroy evidence without being noticed.
If prosecution has a case (and there is likely a case on every politician), the evidence can be presented at an open trial and his guilt can be fairly determined.
If found guilty, he can be arrested at that time.
Arresting him now is the type of dirty politics that weakens a country.
Grow up, Korea, and stop using lawfare to subvert the will of the voters and settle political scores.
I believe GI Korea is disappointed that the court threw out Lee Jae Myung’s detention warrant.
A bit of a background regarding Korean judges and prosecutors.
Korean judges are not known to be impartial and they have absolute power with little checks and balances.
However, Korean judges don’t want their judgements to come back to them so, unlike the prosecutors, they take great care to go over the evidence presented and the wording of their judgements so that to the outsider it makes sense.
For a good example, read the wording of the judgement by the Constitution Court in regards to the impeachment of Park Geun-hye.
Which means, that the evidence presented by the prosecutors is probably circumstantial at best and the judge concluded that the prosecution’s argument and evidence that Lee will destroy evidence and fly away to a foreign country was flimsy at best.
Korean prosecutors’, who also have absolute power with little checks and balances, method of investigation usually depends on confessions that have been coerced after hours of questioning, so yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t have enough hard evidence to back up their claim.
Korean prosecutors are also political animals, and although yes they can go after Lee again, they run the risk of their investigation being labeled as a witch hunt since the judge rejected their warrant.
We’ll have to see how this drama plays out, but for now the current score is
Lee 2 Yoon’s Prosecutors 0
“Korean judges are not known to be impartial,,,”
Way to make South Korea look like a banana republic, “TOK”…
I’d bet Beijing loves it when you insult your alleged homeland…
Without impartial judges, there can be no justice. And that’s how you just described South Korea.
I think our miserable old Texan conveniently skipped this part of my comment;
As for setnaffa’s version of “justice”, I wonder what his reaction would have been, if the judge sided with the prosecution. I’m sure he would have praised the judge and declared that there is “justice” in Korea.
However, since the judge did not side with the prosecution he is decrying the lack of “justice” in Korea and is using me to spread his message so that he wouldn’t be accused of not being impartial.
Such richness from a person who has a thing for “impartial” judges.
And KP was correct, right wingers are cowards indeed.
TOK is right.
The Korean legal system has many flaws. It mostly works because the public is always watching. That is the check and balance on serious abuse.
I would scoff at this…
…except…
…has anyone been paying attention to the American legal systrm lately?
Half the population cheers on Deep Statr lawfare and injustice as long as it supports their ideology.
I read in a history book this type of thing is cyclic.
Let’s see their opinion when this is used against them.
Using ethnicity and homeland to attack people who do not toe their line is a favored tactic of Chinese Internet trolls.
Perhaps setnaffa is a Chinese troll in disguise?
Perhaps setnaffa is a Chinese troll in disguise?
TOK.
It is well known that setnaffa is working for the Russians and ultimately the Chinese.
That is assuming that setnaffa is himself isn’t a sockpuppet of GI Korea.
Which means that GI Korea is working for the Russians and the Chinese?
Intriguing.
Step 2: “Perhaps setnaffa is a Chinese troll in disguise?”
Step 1: “Using ethnicity and homeland to attack people who do not toe their line is a favored tactic of Chinese Internet trolls.”
I saw what you did there.
So Chicken Head you are admitting to being a Chinese troll? 😀
“So Chicken Head you are admitting to being a Chinese troll?”
Between grunts, your mom told me to tell you that you are half right.