"Sexpletive man is guilty of biting his tongue"... This case in a textbook has a chance to retrial for the first time in 60 years [Anchor Report]

It's a 1964 newspaper article.

" Guilty or self-defense? The title is "Kiss, Me, Kick with Your Tongue Cut."

In May of that year, Choi Mal-ja, an 18-year-old living in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, was put on trial on charges of serious injury after biting the tongue of a man in his 20s who was trying to attack her.

He insisted on self-defense, but the following year, the court sentenced him to 10 months in prison and two years of probation.

Later, this case is a representative case of self-defense and is also published in criminal law textbooks.

It is also introduced as a 'forced kiss tongue amputation case' in [the court history] in which the Supreme Court compiled a 100-year history of the court in 1995.

The world has changed in the meantime.

The 1990 film directed by Kim Yu-jin [just because you're a woman].

It was based on a real case in 1988 in which a woman cut the tongue of a man who tried to rape on his way home, and unlike Choi's case, the case was acquitted by the second trial and the Supreme Court.

In May 2020, 56 years after the incident, Choi Mal-ja, who is now well over seventy, filed for a retrial.

This was because the prosecutor illegally detained and forced a confession at the time of the investigation.

Let's listen to Choi's voice.

[Last man / Victim of forced kissing tongue amputation (last November 2021): I got such a disgraceful investigation. It's not enough, so ask him to marry you later, to marry that crazy person. How can I get married? That's why they said they couldn't do it, so they told me to pay them and make an agreement. Does that make sense, the prosecutor. Why do you give me money? They said to agree on the responsibility of creating and crippling a man's disability, because they can't get married. Why do you give me money? Even if I am not guilty, I am now arrested and live as a sinner, and if I am guilty, I will be sentenced to prison. I can't give you even 10 won.]

The Busan District Court and the Busan High Court rejected Choi's claim, saying there was no evidence to support this claim.

However, on the 18th, the Supreme Court reversed the court's decision to dismiss the request for retrial and returned the case to the Busan High Court.

Consistent statements about illegal detention are sufficiently credible,
A series of circumstances were presented through
judgment and newspaper articles, etc.

I'm telling you not to dismiss the request for a retrial immediately, but to re-judge it after a fact-finding investigation.

An 18-year-old girl who was not a victim of a sex crime but was detained as a suspect for serious injury, investigated, and even convicted.

Attention is focusing on whether Choi Mal-ja, who is now 78 years old, will be able to restore her honor in 60 years.