Rep. Kim Seung-won, chairman of the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee’s first legislative review subcommittee, gavels the meeting to order Monday. People Power Party lawmakers did not attend. Photo by Asia Today
July 13 (Asia Today) -- Opposition is growing within South Korea's ruling Democratic Party to a proposal that would completely eliminate prosecutors' authority to conduct supplementary investigations.
The National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee continued reviewing an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act on Monday under Democratic Party leadership.
The proposed legislation would prevent prosecutors from conducting additional investigations after police refer a case to them.
Prosecutors would instead generally be limited to requesting that police conduct further investigative work when they find missing evidence, unanswered questions or other deficiencies in a case.
