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| TITLE | Supreme Court Decision 2018Do19043 Decided February 25, 2021 【Alteration of Official Document; Uttering of Falsified Official Document】 [full Text] |
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| 【Main Issues and Holdings】 [1] Requirements for the constitution of the crime of alteration of an official document The degree to which a document is drafted necessary to the constitution of the crime of alteration of an official document and standard for determining whether it corresponds thereto [2] In the case where as the Defendant, who made a copy of the certificate of registration after erasing the date and time for inspection stated on the bottom of the certificate of registration inspected and printed out through the Internet with a correction tape, issued it to another person, the Defendant was charged with the alteration of an official document and uttering of the falsified official document, the case holding that the Defendant’s act of making a copy of the certificate of registration after deleting the date and time for inspection stated in the certificate of registration is tantamount to creating a document that has new credibility, different from the rights and factual basis revealed by the certificate of registration, thereby leading to the danger of injuring public credit | |
