Former President Yoon Suk Yeol makes his closing assertion throughout his trial on expenses of main an rebellion via his 2024 martial regulation declaration on the Seoul Central District Court docket in southern Seoul, Wednesday. Courtesy of Seoul Central District Court docket
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol will obtain his first court docket verdict this week over obstruction of justice and different expenses associated to his short-lived imposition of martial regulation in December 2024, officers mentioned Thursday, days after a particular counsel group demanded the dying penalty for him on rebellion expenses.
The Seoul Central District Court docket will maintain the sentencing listening to of Yoon’s trial on particular obstruction of public obligation and different expenses in connection to his failed martial regulation bid at 2 p.m. Friday.
The court docket permitted reside broadcasts of the listening to apparently in consideration of the general public’s curiosity within the case.
It marks Yoon’s first sentencing of the eight instances he’s standing trial on, together with over expenses he led an rebellion via his Dec. 3 martial regulation declaration in 2024.
Friday’s sentencing facilities on expenses Yoon blocked investigators from detaining him in January final yr, violated the rights of 9 Cupboard members who weren’t referred to as to a gathering to evaluation his martial regulation plan, and drafted and destroyed a revised proclamation after the decree was lifted.
Final month, particular counsel Cho Eun-suk’s group demanded the court docket sentence him to 10 years in jail for the fees, arguing the ousted chief “privatized” a nationwide company to hide and justify his crimes.
Within the trial’s closing statements, Yoon defended his use of the Presidential Safety Service to dam investigators from detaining him, claiming that presidential safety can’t be too extreme, irrespective of the extent it goes.
Yoon was in the end detained by investigators on Jan. 15 final yr, 12 days after the primary try failed.
This week’s sentencing takes place earlier than one other bench of the Seoul Central District Court docket will ship a verdict on his rebellion trial on Feb. 19.
On Tuesday, the particular counsel group demanded the dying penalty for the previous president on expenses of main an rebellion via his martial regulation declaration.
Yoon’s remaining six instances embrace these introduced by two different particular counsel groups that individually investigated corruption allegations surrounding his spouse, former first girl Kim Keon Hee, and alleged interference in a probe into the 2023 dying of a Marine.
