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(영문) 춘천지방법원 2013.03.18 2013고단126

도로법위반

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The defendant shall be innocent.

Reasons

1. On December 23, 199, at around 04:58, the summary of the facts charged, A, an employee of the Defendant, violated the management agency’s restriction on vehicle operation by operating a vehicle exceeding 10 tons while lowering B vehicle on the road in front of the Dong-dong Highway located in Yacheon-si, Yeongcheon-si. However, despite the prohibition of vehicle operation exceeding 10 tons, A, an employee of the Defendant, was in violation of the management agency’s restriction on vehicle operation by operating a vehicle exceeding 1.1 ton of 10 tons.

2. The judgment prosecutor applied Article 86 of the former Road Act (amended by Act No. 4920 of Jan. 5, 1995 and amended by Act No. 7832 of Dec. 30, 2005; hereinafter the same) to the defendant for the prosecution of this case.

On October 28, 2010, the Constitutional Court rendered a decision that "if an agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation commits an act of violation provided for in Article 83 (1) 2 in connection with the business of the corporation, a fine provided for in Article 83 (2) shall also be imposed on the corporation" in Article 86 of the former Road Act, which applies to the instant case, shall be deemed to be unconstitutional. Accordingly, the provision of the above Act shall retroactively lose its effect pursuant to the proviso of Article 47 (2) of the Constitutional Court Act.

On the other hand, where the penal law or the legal provision becomes retroactively effective due to the decision of unconstitutionality, the defendant's case which was prosecuted by applying the pertinent provision shall be deemed to constitute a crime.

(See Supreme Court Decision 2004Do9037 Decided April 15, 2005, Supreme Court Decision 91Do2825 Decided May 8, 1992, etc.). Thus, since the facts charged in this case do not constitute a crime, the defendant is acquitted pursuant to the former part of Article 325 of the Criminal Procedure Act.