Prosecutors said, "The essence of forcing a person who has no memory to testify"
Pressure on the current governor's demand...It leads to perjury.
Representative Lee Jae-myung and the prosecution have been fiercely fighting for guilt throughout the first trial of perjury teacher for more than a year.
Reporter Kim Chul-hee summarized what are the arguments on both sides and what issues will determine the final judgment of the court.
[Reporter]
CEO Lee Jae-myung speaks with Kim Jin-sung for about 30 minutes on four occasions between 2018 and the following year.
Here, CEO Lee uses the expressions "as it is" and "as it is remembered" several times and orders them to recall their memories,
[Lee Jae-myung / Governor of Gyeonggi Province at the time (last 2018): Just as it is, it's been over anyway.
(Well, it's been so long that even memories....) I'll send you a summary of your argument.
(Yes, that's okay.) It was our captain, so please remember it.]
CEO Lee asks how it was a "perjury teacher" who asked him to tell me what he remembered.
At the same time, he stresses that the prosecution has selected the charges by excluding the favorable part of him, but the prosecution is in the opposite position over the same recording.The essence of the case is that representative Lee, an expert on
law, forced Kim, who only borrowed plausible expressions but had no memory at all, to testify he wanted.
The prosecution believes that Kim perjured himself at the trial because he felt pressured by the demand for representative Lee, who was the incumbent governor of Gyeonggi Province.
And we believe that Kim's false testimony served as an important basis for Lee's subsequent removal of the relevant charges.
If perjury affects the outcome of the trial, the court is demanding that it be punished further.
On the other hand, the representative Lee refutes that Kim did not give any of the statements he wanted, and that the testimony was not considered an issue of the trial, so the results were not affected.
[Jung Sung-ho / Democratic Party member (YTN radio on the 18th): Kim Jin-sung's perjury had no effect on the ruling. So, "Failed Perjury." There's also this....]
Kim Jin-sung has been confessing since the trial began, saying, "The perjury is right."
In the legal community, it is observed that it will not be easy for CEO Lee, who was pointed out as asking for perjury in this situation, to avoid punishment.
The Seoul Central District Court rejected Lee's arrest warrant last year, stating that "the charges of perjury teachers have been cleared."
Depending on how the court views these factors, the judgment of guilt and innocence as well as the sentence is expected to vary.
I'm Kim Chulhee of YTN.
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