Unexpectedly innocent..."Please remember it as it is." Decisive remarks.

Court mentions 'Lee Jae-myung transcript'..."Normal Testimony Request"
"Asking to testify as it is"…Court also recognizesLee Jae-myung "Overall the situation at the time"..."It's not a request for perjury."
The court said, "There was no request for testimony on the 'detailed content'."

[Anchor]
Representative Lee's remarks in the already released transcript played a decisive role in the unexpected acquittal of the "perjury teacher charge" in the first trial, which was highly likely to be guilty.

The court directly quoted Lee's remarks, saying, "Please remember as it is" or "There is no need to make facts that do not exist," explaining the purpose of innocence.

Reporter Shin Ji-won reports.

[Reporter]
The court found Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, not guilty of perjury and mentioned the previously released transcript in detail.

When looking at the overall flow, context, and expression of the call, it is not much different from the usual request for testimony that confirms the memory of witnesses.

At the same time, he directly cited CEO Lee's various remarks in the transcript.

The court acknowledged that representative Lee wanted to revive the memory of what happened a long time ago 'as it is',

[Lee Jae-myung / Then Governor of Gyeonggi-do Province (Kim Jin-sung transcript in 2018): Just as it is, the time has passed anyway....]

{Kim Jin-sung, former secretary of Seongnam Mayor Kim Byung-ryang, noted that it would be helpful to tell the situation in general at the time.

[Lee Jae-myung / Governor of Gyeonggi-do Province at the time (Kim Jin-sung transcript in 2018): Secretary Kim doesn't need to talk about what he didn't see, and I think it would be good if you could remind yourself of your position and the mayor's position.]

The court said that there was no specific statement requesting false testimony from CEO Lee and Kim in the phone call at the time,
He stressed that the evidence submitted by the prosecution
alone does not mean that the representative Lee intended to give perjury to Kim.

I'm Shin Jiwon of YTN.

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