Statement of Grounds for Appeal | Securing a Suspension of Sentencing by Submitting a Statement of Grounds for Appeal in an Indecent Act by Compulsion Case

The contents of the client's case involving a charge of indecent act by compulsion may be summarized briefly as follows.

On the day of the incident, the client had dinner and drinks with friends, and the client, who had become intoxicated beyond their usual capacity, reportedly encountered a former partner on the way home.

Overjoyed, the client made physical contact with the former partner, but it turned out that the woman was not the client's former partner.

Ultimately, the woman requested help from people nearby, and the client was arrested in the act, was tried on a charge of indecent act by compulsion, and, with this firm's assistance, was sentenced to a minor fine.

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The client said that he had been sentenced to a fine in the original judgment on a charge of forcible indecent act, and a forcible indecent act refers to a crime of committing an indecent act against a person by unlawful means such as assault or intimidation.

At this point, even if there was no exercise of physical force, if it made resistance significantly difficult, the 🔗crime of forcible indecent act is established.

For a forcible indecent act, under the Criminal Act, the penalty is imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than 15 million won.

The specialist attorney stated that, although the client had been sentenced to a fine at first instance for the offense of indecent act by compulsion, he was filing an appeal on the ground of an improper sentence.

Counsel argued that the sentence at first instance was excessively heavy in light of the gravity of the client's offense.

The specialist attorney argued that there were favorable sentencing grounds for the client, citing the following.