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(1)Supreme Court Justice Min Yoo-sook, the second deputy chief justice of the Supreme Court, charged with murder and other charges on the 13th
(2)The case was returned to the Daejeon High Court, breaking the original verdict that sentenced Lee to death, who was handed over to trial for righteousness
(3)Lee was handed over to trial in December 2021 on charges of assaulting and killing a fellow prisoner while serving a life sentence in Gongju Prison after being confirmed for robbery and murderLee assaulted the victim dozens of times for not complying with the rules he set, molesting the victim or burning a water bottle containing hot water on his head, and then hitting the victim’s chest with a foot, leading to his death
(4)The first trial court sentenced Lee to life in prison, saying it was difficult to conclude that he had a reckless desire to kill a person However, the appellate court rejected the first trial and sentenced the person to death, saying it is questionable what it would mean to sentence a person who was sentenced to life imprisonment or less
(5)With the first and second trials divided, the Supreme Court saw that the death penalty was excessive, and the Supreme Court said that the original court’s choice of the death penalty in other similar cases constituted a misunderstanding of the law and failure to exhaust the hearing
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