SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A woman, who previously drew a 30-year sentence on suspicion of killing her husband by feeding him food and drink mixed with a nicotine solution, was acquitted of murder charges in a retrial by a court on Friday. The Suwon High Court delivered the not-guilty verdict to the 38-year-old [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of a religious sect leader of charges that he obstructed the government’s response to COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020. Lee Man-hee, the 91-year-old founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, was indicted two years ago for allegedly underreporting the number of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In the first ruling of its kind, South Korea’s top court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of a man charged with refusing to fulfill mandatory reservist duty for nonreligious reasons. The Supreme Court approved lower courts’ verdicts of not guilty for the man indicted for violating the Homeland [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday acquitted seven doctors and nurses at Ewha Womans University Hospital of criminal charges brought against them over the deaths of four newborns by bacterial infection at the western Seoul hospital in December 2017. The Seoul Southern District Court said it has found four doctors [...]