Former president Yoon Suk Yeol speaks throughout a listening to held on the Seoul Central District Courtroom, Wednesday. Yonhap
A particular counsel group 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 group requested the sentence through the last listening to of Yoon’s associated trial on the Seoul Central District Courtroom.
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 assessment 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 along with his failed martial regulation bid, together with over fees he led an rebel.
The obstruction of justice trial would be the first to conclude, and the court docket beforehand stated it should doubtless ship a verdict on Jan. 16, two days earlier than Yoon’s arrest is ready to run out.
Yoon’s attorneys had argued the decision must be delivered after the rebel trial concludes, however the decide dismissed the declare.
The rebel trial is scheduled to wrap up in early January on the earliest, by which case a verdict might come round February.
