Kim Ki-hyun: "The court that granted Lee Jae-myung immunity... Is 'pro-Moon heir' Kim Kyung-soo also a 'predetermined verdict'?"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] On the 6th, Kim Ki-hyun, a member of the People Power Party, expressed concern about the appellate court ruling on Kim Kyung-soo, Governor of Gyeongnam, saying, "It is anticipated that the court will not grant a pardon."

On the 5th, Kim said on Facebook, "I have a foreboding feeling that tomorrow will bring the 'final court takeover' by the Moon Jae-in administration."

He pointed out, "Considering the court's tendency toward biased rulings so far, it is anticipated that the court will again use unreasonable logic to grant a pardon. Based on my legal experience as a former judge, the courts under the Moon Jae-in administration have frequently issued rulings that are utterly incomprehensible."

Kim criticized the court as a "predetermined verdict court" (답정판), noting that while the Supreme Court granted pardons in the cases of Eun Soo-mi, Mayor of Seongnam, and Lee Jae-myung, Governor of Gyeonggi Province, the court convicted a 20-year-old who posted a poster criticizing President Moon, and overturned the acquittal of former Broadcasting Culture Promotion Committee Chairman Ko Young-joo in the second trial, who had said "Moon Jae-in is a communist."

He added, "I cannot shake the feeling that the appellate trial for Governor Kim Kyung-soo, which will be sentenced tomorrow, will also be a 'predetermined verdict' according to the project to make a pro-Moon presidential candidate. Initially, in the first trial, Kim was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring with Druking to manipulate comments and was detained in court, but since then, the court has changed the presiding judge of the appellate trial and continuously delayed the second trial ruling, raising suspicions of regime-level intervention."

Kim stated, "Some political judges, shameless and without any sense of shame, are voluntarily acting as the Moon Jae-in administration's 'bulletproof court,' stacking 'predetermined verdicts' layer upon layer. I will watch with a slight hope that rulings based on law and conscience will be made so that this does not remain a disgrace in our judicial history."

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