Man who escaped drunk driving by claiming to have drunk after accident, gets jail term

An appellate court overturned an earlier ruling that cleared the defendant in a drunk driving case, instead sentencing him to a year in prison, the court said Thursday. The appellate division of the Daejeon District Court handed down a guilty verdict, saying it is unreasonable to believe that the man consumed a lot of alcohol after causing a car crash on June 16, 2024. The court rejected the defendant's claim that he drank at his parents' home after causing the accident, and then reported the ca

By The Korea Herald