Rapper NO:EL (real name Jang Yong-joon) appealed
According to the legal circle on April 14, NO:EL submitted an appeal to the court to disobey his first trial The Judgment through his legal representative.
NO:EL was driven in Banpo-dong, Seoul Seocho District on September 18 last year, and was handed over to trial for refusing to measure drinking, driving without a license, obstructing official execution and injuring under the Road Traffic Act.
NO:EL is also accused of assaulting the police because it did not respond to police's drinking measurements and request for identification. Police bodycam footage filmed inside the patrol car also caused a stir, showing NO:EL swearing at the police calling him to stay still, "X-kick, X-X bitch." NO:EL has admitted allegations of unlicensed drunk driving and obstruction of alcohol measurements, but denied some of the allegations of police assault were "intentional."
Prosecutors sought three years in prison for NO:EL in the fourth hearing on February 25, pointing out that NO:EL committed a repeat offense during the Probation period, which is a bad crime.
The First Trial Court sentenced The Judgment to one year in prison at the NO:EL's The Judgment hearing held on April 8 in the Seoul Seocho District Seoul Central District Court.
NO:EL is not the first time it has caused a drunk driving scandal: In 2019, it caused a car crash with a motorcycle, driving with blood alcohol levels equivalent to a license cancellation. He was criticized for admitting late that he lied that his acquaintance had taken the steering wheel even though he was driving.
NO:EL, who was later indicted on charges of violating the law on specific crime heavy punishment (at risk), violating the Road Traffic Act (drunk driving), escaping teachers, and violating the Special Act on the Prevention of Insurance Fraud, was sentenced to one year and six months in prison and two years in Probation.
Meanwhile, NO:EL's father is Jang Je-won, the chief of staff of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol and a member of the National Assembly.