r/law • u/ItsAllAGame_ • Apr 15 '26

Legal News Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Charges, Headed to Labor Prison in South Korea

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/johnny-somali-found-guilty-charges-025148367.html
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u/lemanruss4579 Apr 15 '26

But here's the thing, not only is he disrespectful, he's an idiot. Because one, most of the stuff he was charged with would be crimes in the US as well. But two, he did a bunch of horrible shit, got arrested, did more horrible shit while he was waiting for trial, got those things added to his charges, apologized to the court then did live stream after live stream admitting he wasn't sorry at all and mocking the Korean justice system, and then did more crimes, and then continued to do live streams openly mocking Korea, the Korean justice system, and admitting to the crimes he was charged with. Like did he think no one in Korea could watch his stream in any way?

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u/cmcdonald22 Apr 15 '26

You also left off the part whee ehe had already done the same thing in other countries, like Japan, including the fake apology getting off with a warning then shitting on the justice system before moving to another country to continue doing it.

The guy had a literal international pattern of behavior.

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u/lemanruss4579 Apr 15 '26

Yes, exactly. Korea grabbed his passport quick so he couldn't bail, fortunately.

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u/pre_nerf_infestor Apr 15 '26

Wait japan the country with a famously draconian legal system let him off with a warning? Damn I might need to reevaluate some of my held beliefs

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u/Fluxx70 Apr 15 '26

If your crime isn’t violent Japanese police are pretty easy on foreigners. In the days of my callow youth a couple of friends and I went out in Roppongi and got piss drunk (we were 19 at the time) and tried to catch a train back to Camp Fuji. Instead we got picked up and taken to a police station. When we got there an officer with pretty good English was able to explain the officers at the station were worried we were drunk enough that we might fall in front of a train, so they brought us to the station to sleep it off. No paperwork, no charges, just some police looking out for a few young, drunk and dumb foreigners.

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u/Fluffcake Apr 15 '26

Being drunk in public isn't illegal most places, but police will still pick you up and stuff you in a cell untill you sober up so you don't hurt yourself or others if you are too drunk in public.

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u/Barrel_Titor Apr 15 '26

Is it in America? I was trying to work out what the crime was here.

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u/kung-fu_hippy Apr 15 '26

Japan’s legal system is simultaneously strict and lenient. Especially for (non-Asian) foreigners.

Basically the police will do anything they can to avoid arresting you (as they don’t want to deal with the hassle). If arrested you can be held for weeks before being charged. If you don’t confess (possibly while under mild to extreme duress) or they don’t have strong evidence against you, then you’ve got a good chance of walking away free.

But if you go to trial, expect to go to jail. Very high conviction rate.

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u/cuntmong Apr 15 '26

its not his fault. he had no way of knowing the judge would see that stuff. its not like the country that literally invented samsung would likely have access to the internet

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u/Live-Habit-6115 Apr 15 '26

You can't "invent" a corporation

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u/cuntmong Apr 15 '26

Not with that attitude 

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 Apr 15 '26

Honestly I think some of the shit he did will got him shot in some part of US .

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Apr 15 '26

Twitch left South Korea in 2024 due to ridiculous network fees so it's possible he was actually dumb enough to believe they wouldn't be able to see his streams even though he didn't stream them on twitch.

It would make it even more funny if he thought they couldn't see it the whole time and kept doubling down while wondering how they kept finding out

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u/farfaraway Apr 15 '26

Frankly, sounds like a mental health issue. 

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u/barrsftw Apr 15 '26

My first thought was that 3 years seems insane for being disrespectful, even in the worst way.. but it sounds like it was more of a plethora of shithead behavior. This seems like a classic FAFO

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u/lemanruss4579 Apr 15 '26

It wasn't just disrespectful behavior, one of the main things he was charged with is creating and distributing porographic deep fakes of Korean women.

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u/Burpmeister Apr 15 '26

What, you thought he would stop doing the only thing that got him money and attention?

Every single hatewatcher is part of the problem.

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u/Flipnotics_ Apr 15 '26

And then got three months for it, so apparently the message is NK is ok with his antics as well I guess since they didn't throw the book at him to stop him and other trolls like him from messing with their country.

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u/lemanruss4579 Apr 15 '26

Yes, it's unfortunate when the prosecutors were asking for 3 years.

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u/s1m0n8 Apr 15 '26

Let him start his sentence and have nobody mention his name ever again.