"Will the current president be arrested?" "Chaos" due to unprecedented situation [Y Record]

■ Host: Kim Sun-young Anchor, Lee Jung-seop Anchor
■ Starring: Lawyer Seo Jeong-bin

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◇ Anchor> If President Yoon attends the prosecution, the incumbent president will stand in the prosecution photo line for the first time in constitutional history, and if he executes an arrest warrant now, he is also concerned about the possibility of reality. The presidential office's security service had prevented police raids before, so only some data was randomly submitted, so wouldn't it be a little difficult to execute any future search or arrest warrants?

◆Seo Jung-bin> Of course, I think there will be some difficulties. This is not a legal part, but a factual aspect, and legally, it is correct that you have to respond to the warrant when it is issued. However, it is not easy to determine whether there will be any interference with physical force, but if a warrant is requested in this state, especially if it interferes with such execution when an arrest warrant or arrest warrant is requested, it can be another crime of obstruction of justice. That's why I think it's a little difficult to actively interfere with this part. On the other hand, one of the reasons why the Ab Soo-young was not executed earlier was that he was still performing his duties as the president at the time, and in the current case, the execution of his duties has been suspended. Therefore, in the end, the acting Prime Minister Han Deok-soo can be seen as the final person in charge of the security service, and if so, when such a warrant is executed, whether the acting Prime Minister Han can actively refuse it or not, but in fact, it is expected that it will not come out that far. If so, I think that if the warrant is actually issued, it will eventually be possible to execute it.

◇Anchor> If it's the first time for an arrest process for an incumbent president, there are many possible scenarios. If an emergency arrest is made, there's a set time for prosecution, right?

◆Seo Jung-bin> Once you are arrested, you must first request a warrant within 48 hours. An emergency arrest is an arrest without a warrant, so there is no time to get a warrant, so you have to make a claim within 48 hours of the arrest in order to make an arrest. If you make an arrest in that way, the prosecution sets the maximum arrest period for the investigation to 20 days. So you have to complete all those investigations necessary for prosecution within 20 days and finally decide to prosecute.

◇Anchor> But in order to request a warrant, you have to write down the contents, so don't many people say that the investigation into the president has proceeded much faster than expected? In order to obtain a warrant, the investigation content needs to be more solid, but there seems to be a view that this part is a little too early.

◆Seo Jeong-bin> In fact, in terms of time, it is progressing quite quickly, so some may think that the investigation should be conducted in more detail or that it is too fast.In fact, as we speed up, if you look at the media and what's being announced like this, there seems to be evidence or statements that are quite important. In particular, there was such an order related to martial law at the time of or before martial law by each commander. These officials' statements, especially now, are accomplices of rebellion in a way, and the consensus statement of such accomplices is a very important evidence for President Yoon because they were directly instructed to enter the National Assembly even when martial law was declared. Therefore, considering the circumstances that have been revealed so far, I think that in fact, when such arrests or warrants are quickly carried out in the future, the level of clarification that can be issued to some extent has already been achieved.

◇Anchor> Then, let's first secure recruits and proceed with the investigation because of such destruction of evidence or something like this, is this position?

◆Seo Jung-bin> That's right. Anyway, statements from important officials have been secured, but statements alone may not be enough to lead the trial. Then, in the end, it is clearly necessary to secure these physical evidence, especially security phones or related documents. So, in order to further strengthen the investigation, of course, such procedures as seizure and search must also proceed quickly.



Excerpted from the conversation: Lee Mi-young, editor of the digital news team

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