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(영문) 춘천지방법원 2019.02.13 2018노922

도로교통법위반(음주운전)등

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The defendant's appeal is dismissed.

Reasons

1. The decision of the court below (one year of imprisonment) is too unreasonable in its summary of the grounds for appeal.

2. Determination of sentencing is based on statutory penalty, discretionary determination that takes place within a reasonable and appropriate scope, taking into account the factors constituting conditions for sentencing prescribed in Article 51 of the Criminal Act.

However, considering the unique area of sentencing of the first instance court that is respected under the principle of trial priority and the principle of directness taken by our Criminal Procedure Act and the nature of the ex post facto review of the appellate court, it is reasonable to reverse the unfair judgment of the first instance court only in cases where it is deemed that the judgment of the first instance court exceeded the reasonable scope of discretion when comprehensively considering the conditions of sentencing in the course of the first instance sentencing review and the sentencing criteria, etc., or where it is deemed unfair to maintain the first instance sentencing as it is in full view of the materials newly discovered in the course of the appellate court’s sentencing review.

In the absence of such exceptional circumstances, it is desirable to respect the sentencing of the first instance court in the absence of such exceptional circumstances.

(see, e.g., Supreme Court en banc Decision 2015Do3260, Jul. 23, 2015). The circumstances alleged by the Defendant as an element favorable to sentencing in the trial of a political party have already been presented during the oral proceedings of the lower court, and there is no change of circumstances favorable to the sentencing criteria after the sentence of the lower court was rendered.

The fact that the Defendant appears to be against the Defendant’s recognition of the instant crime, and that the Defendant appears to have been in need of continuous management after undergoing a liver cancer surgery on 2014, and that the health is not good, etc. are favorable to the Defendant.

However, the crime of this case was committed by the defendant without a driver's license, driving under the influence of blood alcohol level of 0.242%, and caused physical damage to other vehicles, and the crime was not good, and the defendant was under the influence of alcohol, without a driver's license.