Criminal negligence by the eight Court judges

All 8 judges were sued by an award winning and widely renowned news reporter, Woo Jong-chang. In Korea, Woo has a reputation similar to that of Seymour Hersh in the US.


<Criminal negligence by the eight Courrt judges>

http://www.chogabje.com/board/view.asp?C_IDX=71631&C_CC=AZ

It's written by a highly respected investigative journalist Woo Jong-chang, who followed this scandal in depth from the beginning. He's also the first to break the news of the controversial phone recordings of Ko and his gang plotting the overthrow of Park since 2015. The prosecutors' office kept these hidden from the public until Woo broke the news just before the end of the Court hearing in late February. The fact that the prosecutors tried to keep this hidden and didn't even bother investigating Ko, and that the Court flatly ignored this important evidence before they hastily moved to the ruling phase, is clear evidence of the political assassination job that is this impeachment, but I digress...

It's a document the journalist provided to the government to report what he considered criminal negligence by the eight Court judges. He's not a lawyer so he doesn't go into the legal interpretation aspect. Rather, he strictly focuses on five factually incorrect  or logically flawed pieces of evidence cited in the official court ruling.

In one example, he points out how one witness's damaging testimony that the Court relied on, couldn't have been true because Choi was out of the country at the time. He ponders why the Court didn't even fact-check this key point properly. In another example, he points out that there are conflicting testimonies and the Court arbitrarily went with one version without providing any rationale for doing so. The list goes on. Again, note how the ruling relied heavily on questionable witness testimonies rather than hard evidence.

He says the ruling was written as if the judge(s) didn't even read all documentary evidence or cross check all facts and testimonies. Well, there are 40,000+ pages of "let's see if this sticks" evidence, so maybe the judges overlooked some! And that's the key criticism against the Court: they hastily ruled on the case while showing persistent bias against Park's defence team's arguments and ignoring requests of new witnesses and evidence presentation.

The telephone recordings of Ko Young-tae were rejected as evidence by the judges despite the president's lawyers' request.

The judges also rejected the president's lawyers' request to bring Ko as a witness.

A witness (Cha Un-taek) who is a part of the conspiracy to embezzle money from the nonprofit organizations, stated in a hearing that he met Choi Soon-sil on 8/27/15, and she told him that Mir Foundation will be founded. He is the one who stated that Choi appointed all officers of the foundation herself to control the organization. The fact is that the officers of the Mir Foundation were selected by him.

It was found that his statement was a lie because Choi was in Germany from 8/14/15 to 9/11/15 according to official records.

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This was essentially a well executed coup orchestrated by anti-Park/ pro-Lee Myeong-bak Saenuri (currently Liberty Korea) Party members,  opposing political and judicial factions, and major media figures that aligned with them.    

The Constitutioanl Court foud the president guilty and impeached her based on the evidenct they collected from prosecutors.  The prosecutors based their judgement on media news.   They couldn't even come up with an evidence that President Park and Choi Soon-sill took even one won from K and Mir foundations.

The court in the end basically gave in to the powerful figures behind the scene and, more importantly, the irrational and very angry public who were fed non-stop with damaging innuendos about Park. The propaganda machine run by the media portraying Park as stupid and corrupt was relentless. The fact that there is no evidence whatsoever of bribery showing Park's financial gain nor any proof of Choi being a puppeteer of Park didn't matter to the mob. The angry mob mentality was very much out of control.

The court rushed in at the middle of the investigation and just assumed that she was guilty enough to be impeached.  

They've been trying hard to find her guilty since the impeachment and recently accused President Park of taking money from spy agency for private use.  Park Guen-hye furiously denied the accusation.  President Park will receive a prison term on the 6th April 2018  It will be awkward if the outcome is different from the constitutioanl court's ruling.

The truth will come out one day but it probably won't happen until the current political leaders are removed from power, somewhere down the road.



Source:   The president who got impeached for being embarrassing   (from one of the commentators)