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[saram_]

The wheels keep turning..

So back before most of us were here - 1997 or thereabouts there was a homocide committed in Itaewon.
A member of staff of a Burger King joint ( now that big coffee shop above the coldstone ice cream shop) was murdered as he was cleaning the bathroom area.

There was a movie about this incident released there a couple of years ago at this stage.. Itaewon Murder I believe was the name.
Anyway- somehow the main suspect got away with it for a long time and no one was ever convicted for the brutal unprovoked attack.

A court ruling in the US squashed an appeal by the main suspect to be extradited back to Korea.
He has appealed again and can do so 3 times so they aren't sure yet if or exactly if he ll be coming back to Korea but it doesn't look good for him thankfully..

Here is the news story-
http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20130811002400315&domain=3&ctype=A&site=0300000000

I am not sure exactly when the Burher King place closed down but I know I was in there a few times.. Hopefully the family of the murdered college student will get some kind of justice..

[optik404]

I never understood the motive. Having a party, go to BK and get some burgers, randomly stab someone and then just leave. I guess some people are just crazy.

[young_clinton]

My question is why can't they bring the evidence to the US and try him in the USA. The evidence may be strong but he has to get a fair trial in Korea the way he would get a fair trial in the US and I don't know if that would happen. Can you imagine finding an impartial jury in Korea? Do they even use the jury system? Do they require proof beyond a reasonable doubt and are Koreans raised to even consider something like that in any way? I think I sense the "A foriegner in Korea gets has to completely accept the laws and customs of Korea" group coming here soon. "And if doesn't want to go back and face 'Korean justice' he shouldn't have been there in the first place"

[War Eagle]

[Steelrails]

[andrewchon]

[dairyairy]

For you law school dropouts, the murder took place in Korea so Korean law was broken.
So the trial takes place in a Korean court with Korean judges and prosecutors.

The suspect initially got away with it because of many factors, none of them good, and he's been living it up in the U.S.A. Korean prosecutors took a new look at the case after a Korean movie revisited the case. The prosecutors filed to have him brought back to Korea for a new trial. Sending him back is called "extradition", and countries sign treaties to do it in a legal way, guaranteeing a hearing in front of a judge in the U.S.A. The judge heard the evidence from the Korean prosecutors and decided there's enough evidence for a trial. He appealed and that appeal was denied. That's where we are now.

FWIW don't blame the American judicial system for this mess. The original foulup in this case is on the Korean prosecutors and police. The U.S.A. is cooperating under the terms of the extradition treaty it has with Korea but everyone agrees that the extradition process is too slow and doesn't cover enough crimes. Another article about the case does mention those problems-

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/08/116_140892.html

[Died By Bear]

[rkc76sf]

Don't know why Korea would want a scumbag like him in their country, prisons, spending Korean tax dollars all for "justice". But it's fine with me, one less dirtbag roaming the streets of America. We'll see if he gets the same penalty as Kenneth Markle- death sentence reduced to life in prison reduced to 20 years for paying money to the victim's family paroled after 12 years. Death penalty reduced to 12 years, hmmm.

[andrewchon]

Shouldn't there be some warning about disturbing images before you enter a blog?

[dairyairy]

This is from the "bad old days" when Koreans blamed the USA for everything when, in fact, the Korean CJ system fouled it up. Because there's an extradition treaty the Korean CJ system will get a second chance to do what should have been done in 1997, and that's convict and punish the guilty party for a murder. There's no "crime of passion or in the heat of an argument" excuse for a random murder. It was a "random thrill kill" and those are so disturbing. Hopefully they'll get it right this time, but with criminal trials you just never know.

It's just a shame they don't have the death penalty in Korea. They should let that mother pull the switch for her loss. If anyone in your family had ever been murdered you'd want the same justice.

[young_clinton]

[Wildbore]

Sounds like the Korean guy was the idiot for going into a minority-packed ghetto in the first place.

If someone walked into Harlem and got raped/killed would anyone be surprised?

[War Eagle]

[young_clinton]