Korean SOFA Page 20

Korean SOFA Page 20

shall be approved in advance by the Joint Committee. The accused shall be permitted regular communication with, and visitation by, appropriate representatives of the United States and by 
legal counsel and family members, shall not be commingled with convicted prisoners, and shall not be made to perform penal servitude or labor prior to final conviction. The Republic of 
Korea shall give sympathetic consideration to any special requests regarding the frequency and duration of family visitation. Counsel for the accused shall have the right to visit the accused 
and consult confidentially at any time during normal duty hours and for such duration as counsel and the accused deem necessary. 

11. In consonance with the requirements of Article XXII, Paragraph 9( a): 
(a) an accused must be indicted or released from Korean confinement within thirty (30) days, or such shorter period as may be established under the law of the Republic of 

Korea, of the date the accused is first placed in pretrial confinement by the authorities of the Republic of Korea; 

(b) the detention of an accused shall not exceed six months before the completion of the initial trial or such shorter period as may be established under the law of the Republic of 
Korea, or the accused must be released from confinement by the authorities of the Republic of Korea; 

(c) the detention of an accused during the initial appeal shall not exceed four months from the date of expiration of the detention by the decision of the trial court or such 
shorter period as may be established under the law of the Republic of Korea, or the accused must be released from confinement by the authorities of the Republic of Korea; 
and, 
(d) the detention of an accused during the second appeal shall not exceed four months from the date of expiration of the detention by the decision of the initial appellate court 

or such shorter period as may be established under the law of the Republic of Korea, or the accused must be released from confinement by the authorities of the Republic of 
Korea. 
12. The period of suspension of the trial procedure shall not be included into the period under subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding paragraph, if the suspension is 

(a) caused by the request for disqualification of the judge made by the accused,


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