Loi Yoon Chang-ho 'withdrawal of minimum 5 years → 3 years'

The criminal justice team
Yoon "Drink = leave a murder message"
The "Yoon Chang-ho Law" on the drunk driver's sentence seems to have been lowered during the parliamentary debate compared to the original bill.

Draft Law of the Supreme Committee on Legislation and the Judiciary 1 Consideration of the draft law on specific laws providing for aggravated criminal sanctions allowing persons to die of alcohol and drugs on 27th (death due from a dangerous driving). The Yoon Chang-ho law is an amendment to the specific law on the punishment of punishment that reinforces the punishment of the perpetrators of impaired driving, and the bill to amend the Highway Code to lower the standards of detection of impaired driving. driving while intoxicated.

The draft amendment lowered the number of deaths due to driving while intoxicated to more than a year or more, but it was below the Yoon Chang-ho law, which provided for the penalty of death, a term of imprisonment of one month and five years or more. The amendment is ahead of the plenary session of the Ministry of Justice on the 28th and the plenary session on the 29th.

A ministry official said, "The minimum sentence for murder is five years in prison.The same accidental deaths have been corrected because of the deliberate aspect of the crime and the legal equality of the sentence. " Lawmakers in the ruling party and opposition parties are said to have received the opinion that "they can not legislate considering that the judiciary is temporary". A senior Justice Department official, who attended the Justice Department on the 14th, said, "(impaired driving) is a range of negligence." "The impaired driving accident is not a mistake but a murder." This is contrary to what President Moon Jae-in said on 10 October.

Yoon's friends resisted strongly. Kim Min-jin (21) held a press conference at the National Assembly on February 27 and stressed that he intended to defend the sentence "5 years imprisonment (as a murder)" Yoon's friends are concerned that if the lower limit of the death penalty sentence is three years, probation will be suspended due to various reduction factors. met with Moon Hee-sang, president of the National Assembly, to request a reconsideration of the decision, but Moon said: "The decision was made by the ruling party and by the opposition party" .

At the same time, the revision of the Road Traffic Act, which is currently under discussion in the National Assembly's Administration and Security Committee, has decided to reinforce the standard of suspension of the license BAC from 0.05% to 0.03% and the license cancellation standard from 0.1% to 0.08%.

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