Former president Yoon Suk Yeol speaks throughout a listening to held on the Seoul Central District Court docket, Wednesday. Yonhap
A particular counsel workforce on Friday sought a 10-year jail time period for former President Yoon Suk Yeol over obstruction of justice and different fees associated to his December 2024 imposition of martial regulation.
Particular counsel Cho Eun-suk’s workforce requested the sentence throughout the remaining listening to of Yoon’s associated trial on the Seoul Central District Court docket.
The trial facilities on fees the previous president obstructed justice by blocking investigators from detaining him in January, violated the rights of 9 Cupboard members who weren’t known as to a gathering to evaluate his martial regulation plan, and drafted and destroyed a revised proclamation after the decree was lifted.
Yoon can be standing three different trials in connection together with his failed martial regulation bid, together with over fees he led an rebellion.
The obstruction of justice trial would be the first to conclude, and the courtroom beforehand mentioned it is going to possible ship a verdict on Jan. 16, two days earlier than Yoon’s arrest is about to run out.
Yoon’s attorneys had argued the decision must be delivered after the rebellion trial concludes, however the choose dismissed the declare.
The rebellion trial is scheduled to wrap up in early January on the earliest, by which case a verdict may come round February.
