This article critically analyzes the court's judgment on the case of damages, which is the successor to Kang Ki-hoon's suicide aid criminal case. The court's decision is the Seoul High Court's ruling on May 31, 2018, and the Seoul Central District Cou...
This article critically analyzes the court's judgment on the case of damages, which is the successor to Kang Ki-hoon's suicide aid criminal case. The court's decision is the Seoul High Court's ruling on May 31, 2018, and the Seoul Central District Court on June 7, 2017. This case is a representative case of a misdemeanor case, a case of a past case which was sacrificed by the state by the power of the state, and a case which caused the second damage in the review process.
This article analyzes the causality of illegal acts and prosecutions by the High Court. The High Court dismissed the responsibility of the prosecutors and the appraiser after separating the entire investigation and the liability for damages caused by the prosecution and the individual illegal activities of the investigation process. However, the division and negation of the causal relationship between illegal acts and indictments are illogical in the causal relation. Cause and effect do not disappear, but affect each other. In causality, the cause does not disappear, but it can be restricted by using normative logic. However, indirect causes and illegal activities should not be ruled out. Judgment of indirect causes and illegal acts is especially important when final judgment such as indictment is justified.
Prosecutions and judgments in violation of the basic principle of criminal law, “in dubio pro reo”, “principle of innocence”, “fairness obligation” are judged to be gross negligence. This is because of the serious violation of the duty of foreseeing of the duty of care. The criterion that violates the basic principles of criminal law is gross negligence.
There is a lot of evidence in one case, and the evidence makes one structure to recognize the crime. According to evidence theory, when the core evidence is shaken, the whole evidence is shaken. In this case, the certificate is the core evidence, and the other evidence serves as evidence for supporting the evidence or the testimony that acknowledges the individual crime. Thus, if a problem occurs in a certificate, other evidence will of course be affected, and if there is a problem with the evidence supporting the certificate, the certificate and other evidence will also be affected. If there is any evidence of illegal activity, especially of serious illegal acts foreseen by the law, it should be considered that it has influenced the core evidence and the prosecution decision, regardless of causality.
Finally, this article explains the violation of the fairness obligation of the prosecutors and the cautionary obligation of the judge's judgment of the certificate. In addition, it also points out the problem of conviction for violation of the National Security Law.