Police said they do not suspect foul play.
Sure. High profile judges frequently drop dead without warning... Nothing to see here
Police said they do not suspect foul play.
Sure. High profile judges frequently drop dead without warning... Nothing to see here
Probably went to sleep with the fan on.
The Republic of Samsung--an outpost of the USA. Heavy corruption is to be expected.
Not everything is about the USofA. There are literally hundreds of other countries in the world. This is an article about Korea written by a British media outlet. Please
FTA: "Police said they do not suspect foul play".
Is that the usual news-speak for avoiding the word 'suicide', or corrupt police making things up?
Maybe.....Some countries, like Japan, have an extremely high murder conviction rate. They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
I don't know if that is the same case in SK, but it could be an admin think until they know more.
They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
See that makes too much sense. A crazier theory would be more fun!
I know! It turns out that Japanese people are just really, really hard to kill. They're ultra durable. Must be the food or something. The murder rate is low because it's just incredibly physically difficult to kill a Japanese person with violence. In fact, Japan didn't actually have an army in WW2. It was just one Japanese guy that went nuts and started rampaging across the Western Pacific. It took the atomic bomb to finally stop him.
Why else did we build the bomb? To flatten cities? No. That's just what it took to stop the bastard!
They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
They also have a court system comically stacked in favor of the prosecution.
Japan, have an extremely high murder conviction rate. They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
Press X to doubt that their false conviction rate is actually significantly lower
This has been the proper phrasing since the beginning of police and newspapers.
Inside you there are two Koreas. Both are hell.
wasn't south Korea originally not even a democracy , but a collection of Ruling Elite families backed by the US ?
No it was a military dictatorship. What you're talking about is how it is now.
Yep, it's presently a hard ultracapitalist oligopoly dominated by four companies, with the last two presidents impeached, the first of the two was groomed by a cult.
But this is the Sixth Korean Republic. After the initial US military dictatorship, there have been many cases of SK military dictatorship, the most recent one being 1979-1987 I believe.
Back to being a banana Republic. Guess there was a modern a decade or two
Police stated that a suicide note was found on the clothes Judge Shin was wearing at the time of his death. The note reportedly contained the message, “I’m sorry. I’m leaving on my own.” It is said that the note did not mention the trial related to Ms. Kim’s case. However, Judge Shin was known to have recently confided in acquaintances about stress caused by the trial. A legal industry insider said, “He might have felt a heavy burden due to handling a case that drew significant public attention.”
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Police believe he fell to his death after entering the rooftop after 5:05 p.m. on the previous day (5th). However, as there is no CCTV installed on the rooftop of the Seoul High Court building, police are still determining the exact time of death.
Handwriting analysis would be appropriate, and would settle doubts if some do exist.
Sane theory: the judge took his own life from the stretch.
Reasonably suspicious theory: he was murdered.
Comedy of errors theory: the suicide note is entirely genuine and sincer. The judge did intend to kill himself. However, he was murdered before he could carry it out!
To me, the line “I’m sorry. I’m leaving on my own.” implies that he was given the option of suicide, or something far worse, and he made his choice.
Sure. But it's much funnier to imagine an assassin going to great lengths to plot a murder, when if they had just done absolutely nothing, the result would be exactly the same.
Handwriting analysis
Is a sketchy field on a good day. My handwriting would go to shit if I was banging something out moments before my death, one way or another.
Oh man is their entire government going to explode with some over the top insane tinfoil hat conspiracy come to life again?
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