A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for one year.

However, the execution of the above punishment shall be suspended for two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

The Defendant, at the time of the instant case, was a person in charge of public relations affairs, etc. at D’s election campaign that was elected after going to C at the election of the head of the Gun and the 7th local election of the Do si Gun, which was implemented on June 13, 2018.

No person shall publish or have any false fact about a candidate, his/her spouse, lineal ascendant or descendant, or sibling disadvantageous to a candidate by means of a speech, broadcast, newspaper, communication, magazine, poster, propaganda document, or other means, with the intention of preventing him/her from being elected, or slander a candidate by openly pointing out any fact.

피고인은, E언론 B군수 후보자(C D, F정당 G) 토론회가 끝난 직후인 2018. 6. 5. 16:00경 전남 H에 있는 D 후보자 선거사무소에서 「D을 지킵시다. 8년 전에도 4년 전에도 선거철만 되면 이렇게 흑색선전으로 진흙탕을 만드는 적폐세력이 있습니다. 더구나 이번에는 본인 캠프 여성운동원을 매수해 제보자로 내세워 폭로시키고, 바로 그만두게 하는 참으로 비열하고, 창피한 일을 하고 있습니다. 4만6천 B군민이시여! B을 더럽히고, 군민을 기만하는 행동에 역사의 심판을 내립시다 」 등이 기재된 문자메시지를 휴대전화 2대(I, J)를 이용하여 B군민 등 3,665명의 휴대전화로 전송함으로써, K이 2018. 6. 4.경 D을 강제추행죄로 고소한 사건과 관련하여, ‘K이 D 후보자로부터 강제추행을 당한 사실이 없음에도 G 후보자 측이 K을 매수하여 강제추행 사건을 허위 폭로하게 하는 방법으로 흑색선전을 하고 있다’는 취지의 문자메시지를 유포하였다.

However, there was no fact that K purchased K in spite of the fact that the G candidate's side was forced to commit an indecent act by D candidates, and there was no fact that K influencated indecent act by force was conducted in a false and excessive manner.

The defendant, therefore, was 7.