Impeached and detained conservative South Korean Prersident Yoon Suk Yeol spent his Saturday pleading with a judge to let him out of detention, personally speaking for 40 minutes during a nearly five hour-long closed-door meeting over whether to formalize Yoon’s arrest on sedition charges stemming from his batshit stupid December 3rd declaration of martial law, the AP reports.
If the judge sides with anti-corruption prosecutors in a decision expected either late Saturday or early Sunday Yoon will spend at least the next 20 days behind bars while prosecutors consider a formal indictment, which he’s looking at minimum six months in the joint before his trial can begin if he’s accused of abuse of power and/or orchestrating a rebellion. Yoon could face life imprisonment or even the death penalty if convicted of the latter. Both are being considered by prosecutors.