Tae-Gyu Kim (28th Judicial Research and Training Institute) Chief Judge of Busan District Court. News 1
– Kim Tae-gyu (54, 28th Judicial Research and Training Institute) asked about the’impeachment of the judges’ promoted by the ruling party, saying, “I am tempted to use the knife because the impeachment knife is very useful and easy to use as the government changed to the impeachment of the president. I can think of it as far as I can.
In addition, the Democratic Party is pushing ahead with impeachment of the Busan High Court chief judge Im Seong-geun, who is under suspicion of being involved in’Judongnongdan’ during the days of Supreme Court Chief Yang Seung-tae. The case of Judge Lim, who was recently convicted of acquittal in the first trial, is currently undergoing an appeal trial.
Judge Kim on his Facebook page on the 31st said, “Even though the appeal is still ongoing, the impeachment of the case already convicted in the first trial does not correspond to each other.” It is still too much to discuss.”
He said, “(The Constitutional Court) did not judge that the act was not illegal in the impeachment of former President Roh Moo-hyun,” he said. “It is illegal but dismissed the impeachment because it was not enough to lead to impeachment. Indeed, it is enough to be mentioned as a bang argument in the reason for the judgment. Could the cause be a serious offense that leads to impeachment? I don’t agree with it,” he added.
He said, “It is said that the judges subject to impeachment interfered with other judges’ trials, but it is difficult to accept it,” he said. “The judge’s judgment does not come to a conclusion with great insights from heaven in his office while disconnected from the world. Advice to senior judges He pointed out, “I come to the final judgment while seeking advice and listening to advice.”
“In the case in question, the judge in charge of the case has already been drawing conclusions, and the judge in charge is also saying that it has not been influenced psychologically at all.” “If this matters, they misread the judgment by the public. I have no choice but to doubt that I wanted to do it.”
Judge Kim said, “Let’s be honest, it would be infringing on the independence of the judges by advising seniors to avoid misreading the judgment, or would it infringe on the independence of the judges if the lawmakers said to impeach the judges?” “It is inevitably much more scary to press the judges with the legal means of “.”
“But why are they trying to instill such fear in the judges?” He said, “I wonder if the passport would have spoken about impeachment of the judges if the judgment was favorable to the offender’s passport in cases such as Jung Kyung-Shim, Yoon Seok-yeol, Park Won-soon, and Choi Kang-wook.” Said.
He also said, “(Judge Im) is a judge who has no more than one month left in office,” and said, “I am not a judge who has not resigned and has to resign because he has not applied for re-appointment after completing his ten-year term as a judge. I don’t know why he said impeachment. “He added.
He also said, “I am unfortunate to impeach the President, but the President is still in the sphere of politics that is elected through elections.” “Appointed as a bureaucrat and pushing the blade of impeachment to the courts farthest from politics now makes this very easy. He pointed out, “It’s nothing more than a declaration that you will write as much as you want.”
He said, “If impeachment begins to be abused politically, the president, who has lost the support of the public in the future, has to end his term at any time in fear of the blade of impeachment, and judges must also face trial and work with fear of impeachment.” “I want to ask if there is no law, and if I really want a Republic of Korea where only such politics are rife,” he said.
Judge Kim asked, “Do I have to accept this as a legitimate impeachment decision, not political retaliation or intimidation?” and asked, “Finally, the judges who were infringed on the jurisdiction that they told me to make a decision quickly in the past, and the evidence necessary to investigate their colleagues quickly The National Judges’ Council, which said that it was a problem not to give up, said nothing. It is quiet in this case, even if it moves quickly to the demands of some politicians and the heads of the courts.”
Deputy Judge Kim, the 28th member of the training institute, opened a lawyer in 1999, became a researcher at the Constitutional Court in 2005 and became a Supreme Court judge in 2006. Since then, he has been a judge in the Gyeongsang-do region, including the Busan District Law, the Busan High Court, and the Changwon, Daegu, and Ulsan District Laws.
Ahead of the formation of the’Special Investigation Group on Suspicion of Abuse of Judicial Administration Authority’ in 2018, he expressed an opinion on’Courtnet’, a bulletin board inside the court, that “I hope that the Special Investigation Team will not create an atmosphere for the temple within the judiciary.” In addition, in November of the same year, when the agenda of the need for impeachment of a judge involved in the alleged abuse of judicial administration was decided at the National Judges’ Meeting, “Impeach the National Judges’ Representatives” was posted on Courtnet.
In the middle of this month, he expressed his appreciation to the court, saying, “I want to continue my work as a judge, but the circumstances of the country or the court are not good, and various circumstances do not make me feel rewarded.”
Reporter Seok-Hyun Ko [email protected]
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