Instead of abolishing the prosecution’s right to supplementary investigation, the ‘right to demand’ is strengthened… If the prosecutor had only looked at the records, would he have revealed the ‘Jang Yoon-gi case’?

Jang Yoon-ki, who is suspected of killing high school girl Lee Chae-won in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do, was transferred from the police to the prosecution in May. The key point of the criminal procedure law amendment proposed by the Democratic Party of Korea's Criminal Procedure Law Revision Task Force (TF) on the 9th is to completely abolish the prosecution's right to supplementary investigation while strengthening the right to request supplementary investigation. Recently, skepticism about the abolition of the prosecution’s supplementary investigation rights has risen rapidly due to the ‘suspicion of Jang Yoon-ki’s investigation being tampered with’...