무료바카라

1. Case Background

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① Who did Barun Law represent? Barun Law represented a former police officer who was alleged of the receipt of 무료바카라 in relation to his duties.

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② Case background

The client was a former police officer working at the Seoul Gangnam Police Office. When Burning Sun Club was subject to a violation of the Youth Protection Act, he was introduced to a co-representative director of the club by his acquaintance working at the club. The police officer allegedly demanded him to give KRW20 million in exchange for covering up the case. Thereafter, the police officer received money on two occasions from the club. He was arrested and prosecuted for the allegation of the receipt of money or profits in relation to his duties as police officer.

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③ Litigation

The accused consistently argued from the investigation stage that he had never requested the representative director of Burning Sun Club to give him money on the condition that he would cover up the case. However, the representative director had changed his position and had testified that he had provided the accused with money to ask him a favor after he had been presented with text messages given and taken between his employee and the accused regarding personal debts. The representative director also testified the circumstances surrounding the delivery of money to the accused.

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We did not represent the accused in the district court. The accused was found guilty and was sentenced with imprisonment for one year by the district court. The district court rejected the argument made by the accused and found that the testimonies made by the representative director of Burning Sun Club was convincing and there was no objective ground for the court to doubt that the representative director made a false testimony.

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2. Decision

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As the accused had been subject to the prison sentence by the district court, he retained us. We helped him be found innocent at the high court.

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With regard to the charge that the accused had put the representative director in his car and had demanded him to give him money in return for the favor while driving around the hotel several times, the high court judges found that they had a significant ground to doubt the reliability of the representative director’s testimony that the accused had requested him for the payment of money, in the light of the entry and departure record of the vehicle driven by the accused, the google timeline of the accused and the testimonies made by related persons.

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With regard to the charge that the accused had been initially received money through an employee and then directly by the representative director, we argued that the employee and the representative director had reversed their statements and had made additional statements regarding factual background of the gift of 무료바카라 to the accused after they had received text messages which were unfavorable to the accused from the investigators, and the high court judges cross-checked the testimonies made by the employee and the representative director against the contents of the text messages. The high court judges found that the charge was not consistent with the employee’s past events and the testimonies made by the employee and that the representative director lacked reliability.

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3. Our argument and role

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The accused had already lost the case in the district court, and the related investigation records were massive. Our attorneys thoroughly reviewed the exhibits and identified additional evidence supporting the alibi of the accused. In addition, they procured investigation records that had been produced by prosecutors as evidence, taking advantage of discovery. They reminded the judges of the importance of the case through aggressive argument. The attorneys convinced the judges that the testimonies made by the representative director could be contaminated even in the investigation stage, which affected the judges’ judgement of the reliability of the representative director’s testimonies.

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Our attorneys explained that the accused and the representative director could not meet at the alleged time and the alleged location on the basis of objective evidence such as the google timeline and the mobile phone record of the accused and the locations of mobile phone base stations. They also personally demonstrated the related materials at the trials. As such, they persuaded the judges to determine that all the charges filed by the prosecutors failed to be proved to the extent that they could be convinced that there was no reasonable doubt about the alleged charges.

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4. Implication

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The main issue was whether the accused had actually received 무료바카라. The case was based on the legal theory that there must be reliability sufficient enough for judges to preclude reasonable doubt in order to find the accused guilty only on the basis of testimonies made by a person alleging that he has provided money for the accused in the event that the accused denies the alleged receipt of 무료바카라 and there is not objective physical evidence supporting the denial.

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However, it is not easy to impeach the reliability of statements made by a bribegiver because there are various types of cases (e.g., conciliation provided by investigators and the bribegiver's intentional lie to conceal other crimes) in case where there is only a false statement from the bribegiver without proof. Our attorneys mobilized even a request for an order to allow the accused to inspect and copy investigation records that the prosecutor had not submitted as evidence through a careful review of records, and finally revealed the unreasonableness of the lower court’s decision.

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