3-Year Prison Term Finalized for Ex-PSS Chief for Obstructing Yoon's Arrest
The appellate court cut Park Jong-joon’s term after finding he blocked investigators seeking to detain former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
- A three-year prison term was finalized Thursday for former Presidential Security Service chief Park Jong-joon, who obstructed investigators from executing an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Suk Yeol last year.
- The Seoul High Court reduced Park's term from four years to three last week, citing his Jan. 7, 2025, resignation as evidence of accountability and his avoidance of physical confrontations.
- Also finalized were prison terms for other PSS officials: Lee Kwang-woo received two years, and Kim Shin received a one-year term suspended for two years for his security role.
- Former PSS deputy chief Kim Seong-hoon has appealed his five-year sentence to the Supreme Court, while Park and prosecutors missed the Wednesday deadline to file appeals.
- The Seoul High Court plans to deliver its verdict in January next year on former President Yoon Suk Yeol's insurrection charges, following his life sentence in February for the Dec. 3, 2024, martial law bid.
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Former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who is currently standing in the appeal trial for the insurrection ringleader case, expressed gratitude to supporters who attended the hearing after concluding the final arguments. He also offered words of encouragement to former Defense Intelligence Command Commander Noh Sang-won. Former President Yoon [attended] the insurrection ringleader trial held on the 5th under the chairmanship of Seoul High Court Criminal…
Former President Yoon, ‘Ringleader of Insurrection,’ to Have Appeal Sentence on January 26 Next Year
The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 12-1 concluded the final hearing of the appeal trial for former President Yoon Suk-yeol on charges of insurrection and announced that the sentencing will take place on January 26 of next year. The defendants argued for the legitimacy of the declaration of martial law in their final statements, and attention is focused on the outcome of the appeal trial following the life imprisonment sentence handed down in…
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Neither the Special Counsel nor the defendant appealed... Only former Deputy Chief Kim Sung-hoon sent to the Supreme Court. The three-year prison sentence for former Presidential Security Service Chief Park Jong-jun, who was indicted on charges of obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials against former President Yoon Suk-yeol, has been finalized. According to legal sources o…
The appellate court ruling for former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was indicted on charges of being the ringleader of an insurrection related to the December 3rd state of emergency, will be handed down on January 26 next year. The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 12-1 (Judges Lee Seung-cheol, Cho Jin-gu, and Kim Min-ah) announced on the 5th, following the conclusion of the closing arguments for the insurrection case involving former President…
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