Kim Myung-ho, a former Sungkyunkwan University professor made famous for attacking a judge with a crossbow, filed a complaint with the prosecution against Judge Lee Sang-ho on Tuesday, accusing him of unlawful detention and abuse of authority, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Lee was the presiding judge in the case that found former Democratic Party lawmaker Chung Bong-ju guilty of spreading false information about President Lee Myung-bak. Chung was jailed for one year in relation to his claims about Lee and his connection to the investment company BBK that was found to have manipulated stock prices.

“Supreme Court judge Lee abused his authority by placing the duty to prove falsehoods related to BBK not on the prosecutors but on former Rep. Chung, and has unlawfully imprisoned him,” Kim said in his suit.

Kim came under the spotlight in 2007 after he shot and wounded Judge Park Hong-woo with a crossbow arrow. The judge had ruled against him in his case to be reinstated to his former post.

In 1995, Kim pointed out an error in a math question in the school’s admission test, but the school fired him for slandering colleagues.

He was then imprisoned for four years after firing a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal trial in front of the judge’s house in 2007. He was released early last year.



By Choi He-suk
(cheesuk@heraldcorp.com)