WP reports… “The U.S. Department of Justice demands that judgment be made based on the likelihood of guilt when deciding whether to indict.”
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kang Byeong-cheol = Amid growing controversy surrounding the special prosecutor’s report that said President Joe Biden, who is running for re-election, has memory problems, the Justice Department’s rule requiring a judgment on the possibility of guilt has been removed from the special prosecutor’s report. The Washington Post (WP) reported on the 10th (local time) that this may have been the background for the mention.
Justice Secretary Merrick Garland appointed Robert Huh, the chief prosecutor of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, who is of Korean descent, as a special prosecutor in January last year, when the issue of the leak of President Biden’s confidential documents arose.
In accordance with the internal regulations of the Ministry of Justice, after the investigation, the special prosecutor submits a report to the Minister of Justice explaining the decision on whether or not to indict. However, the sitting president is not subject to criminal prosecution.
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The Justice Department’s internal rules require special prosecutors to decide whether to file charges based on the reasonable likelihood of conviction, former federal prosecutor Harvey Eisenberg told WP.
Eisenberg, a former prosecutor who worked with Special Prosecutor Heo in Maryland, said, “Special Prosecutor Heo hypothetically used detailed information about President Biden’s memory to demonstrate his assessment of whether there was a high possibility of him being convicted (report) It appears to have been included,” he said.
Previously, in a report released on the 8th, the special prosecutor assessed that President Biden’s memory was quite limited, saying that when President Biden was indicted, he could describe himself as “an old man with no malicious intent and a bad memory,” and because of this, the jury changed. He said it is highly likely that President Eden will be judged to have made a mistake rather than intentionally committed an illegal act.
Although he is a Republican, the evaluation that Special Prosecutor Heo has refrained from making political comments and actions is also cited as a reason why it can be inferred that President Biden’s memory issues were included in the report due to the internal regulations of the Justice Department. WP reported that Special Prosecutor Heo was evaluated by his colleagues as fair and non-political.
The media reported that this special prosecutor’s report also contrasts with the Ministry of Justice’s refusal to disclose documents in cases where it decides not to indict someone.
However, unlike other criminal cases, in the case of the report on the special prosecutor’s investigation, the situation has changed since special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who investigated suspicions of collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
The report was made public to emphasize transparency and show that the investigation was conducted fairly.
Meanwhile, the Biden camp is attacking Special Prosecutor Heo’s political intentions, calling the negative description of President Biden’s memory problems “unfounded, inaccurate, and inappropriate” despite the special prosecutor’s decision not to indict.
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