Korean forensics and autopsies must suck if we trust #SuspiciousPartner. They took a case to trial for murder when the autopsy report showed it was an accident. Ugh.
That wasn’t revealed until after the trial because the mother assumed the son killed the father so she took blame for the murder. When it was revealed that it was an accident, the mother was still going to get convicted for messing with a dead body.
They had one but it wasn’t an internal autopsy because they just focused on the head wound and stabbing. The lawyers did mention that it was odd that they didn’t check his medical record, but the prosecution didn’t think they really had to do much since there was a confession…(I don’t really know right procedures or anything and kdramas aren’t known for their accurate portrayal of court/police procedures, but just saying how they justified those actions which made sense to me at least lol)
Technically, at least in the US, manslaughter is still a type of homicide even if it’s an accident, and thus still a criminal offense.
I remember because my murder cheat sheet for the bar exam will forever be burned into my mind.
I was more peeved at the fact that they just took a confession without properly examining the circumstances (abuse, a child, the medication, posthumous stabbing, etc.) and just let the confession alone stand when it was super flimsy at best. That seems like shoddy procedural work. But I may be biased because I’ve done criminal defense work and am primed to question prosecutors.
I am corporate all the way and still this show has been irking me with its loose treatment of evidence and procedure. Even explaining it away as “Korean Legal System” isn’t patching over all the flaws for me.
Yeah, I’m more general practice for now (which I hate, but a girl’s gotta be able to afford her fabulous shoes) but plan/want to move more specifically into crim defense and/or civil rights eventually. I mostly just wish trials moved that fast in the US. I usually try to ignore the legal stuff because I just can’t deal. This is why I started watching dramas in the first place.
But yeah, the handling of evidence made me yell “Have you never heard OJ Simpson?” at the screen during the first two episode, because I’m pretty sure that case is applicable everywhere since it was a procedural and evidentiary shitshow.
Thank GOD the leads are beyond adorable and the central murder story is compelling.
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Kestrel
June 8, 2017 at 4:55 PM
Korean forensics and autopsies must suck if we trust #SuspiciousPartner. They took a case to trial for murder when the autopsy report showed it was an accident. Ugh.
Jig
June 8, 2017 at 6:13 PM
That wasn’t revealed until after the trial because the mother assumed the son killed the father so she took blame for the murder. When it was revealed that it was an accident, the mother was still going to get convicted for messing with a dead body.
Kestrel
June 8, 2017 at 6:19 PM
You do not go to trial for murder without an autopsy. End of Story. No lawyer would.
Jig
June 8, 2017 at 7:29 PM
They had one but it wasn’t an internal autopsy because they just focused on the head wound and stabbing. The lawyers did mention that it was odd that they didn’t check his medical record, but the prosecution didn’t think they really had to do much since there was a confession…(I don’t really know right procedures or anything and kdramas aren’t known for their accurate portrayal of court/police procedures, but just saying how they justified those actions which made sense to me at least lol)
SnarkyJellyfish
June 8, 2017 at 8:06 PM
Technically, at least in the US, manslaughter is still a type of homicide even if it’s an accident, and thus still a criminal offense.
I remember because my murder cheat sheet for the bar exam will forever be burned into my mind.
I was more peeved at the fact that they just took a confession without properly examining the circumstances (abuse, a child, the medication, posthumous stabbing, etc.) and just let the confession alone stand when it was super flimsy at best. That seems like shoddy procedural work. But I may be biased because I’ve done criminal defense work and am primed to question prosecutors.
Kestrel
June 8, 2017 at 8:08 PM
I am corporate all the way and still this show has been irking me with its loose treatment of evidence and procedure. Even explaining it away as “Korean Legal System” isn’t patching over all the flaws for me.
SnarkyJellyfish
June 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM
Yeah, I’m more general practice for now (which I hate, but a girl’s gotta be able to afford her fabulous shoes) but plan/want to move more specifically into crim defense and/or civil rights eventually. I mostly just wish trials moved that fast in the US. I usually try to ignore the legal stuff because I just can’t deal. This is why I started watching dramas in the first place.
But yeah, the handling of evidence made me yell “Have you never heard OJ Simpson?” at the screen during the first two episode, because I’m pretty sure that case is applicable everywhere since it was a procedural and evidentiary shitshow.
Thank GOD the leads are beyond adorable and the central murder story is compelling.