The ”exam question leak” case of twins from Sookmyung Girls' High School 7 years ago...Final verdict today (24th) = Korea

The Supreme Court handed down its ruling today (24th) on the twin sisters in connection with the case in which their father, who was the head of the academic affairs department at Sookmyung Girls' High School in South Korea, stole exam answer sheets and gave them to two sisters who were attending the same school.
The ruling will be released on Wednesday, May 24th. The ruling will be final and binding, five years after the sisters were indicted. The Supreme Court's second division will decide on the appeal against the twin sisters at 10:10 a.m. on the 24th.
The main issues in this case are whether the accused committed the conspiracy and whether the facts of the indictment were specified.
Questions will also be raised about whether due process was followed in executing the warrant to seize electronic information and whether it has been proven that the sisters took exams using the leaked answer sheets.
They were found guilty at the first trial and sentenced to one year and six months in prison, suspended for two years, and a 240-hour community service order.
In the appeal court, the defendants' arguments were partially accepted, and their sentences were reduced to one year in prison and two years suspended. At least in the subjects that the sisters did not take together, the conspiracy relationship could not be recognized.
The court accepted the sisters' argument that their father had stolen their exam papers five times, from the final exam of the first semester of 2017, when they were first-year students at Sookmyung Girls' High School, to the final exam of the following year.
He was put on trial in 2019 on charges of taking the exam and disrupting the school's grade management operations. Meanwhile, the sisters' father, Dean of the Academic Affairs Department, Hyun, was arrested in March 2020 on charges of leaking exam questions and answer sheets.
He was sentenced to three years in prison by the Supreme Court and released last year after serving his sentence.