Overview
- Closing arguments on Friday in Seoul will also wrap cases for former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, former National Police Agency chief Cho Ji-ho and five others.
- Special counsel Cho Eun-suk's team is expected to seek one of three statutory punishments for an insurrection ringleader: death, life in prison, or life without forced labor.
- Some members of the prosecution team favored recommending life imprisonment over capital punishment, according to legal sources.
- Prosecutors charge Yoon with conspiring to subvert the Constitution by declaring martial law, deploying troops and police to block the National Assembly, and ordering arrests of top lawmakers.
- Sentencing is anticipated in early February after the court hears the recommendation, closing arguments and the defendant’s final statement.