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Suspect in copyright case gains more time
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Posted on Jun 02 2008
The federal court has given a defense lawyer and his client more time to prepare for the trial related to the video shop raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, during which thousands of alleged pirated DVDs and VHS tapes were seized.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson granted the request of attorney Bruce Berline and his client, Il Cho, more time to prepare and waived defendant’s right to speedy trial. Cho was the manager of the video shop.
Munson set the trial date for Sept. 8, 2008 at 9am.
Berline also moved to have the date for pretrial motions extended to June 27, 2008. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric O’Malley did not object. The judge also granted the motion.
Munson allowed Cho to remain at liberty under the same terms and conditions as the court had previously set.
On April 14, 2008, the FBI Cho arrested Cho and his employee following the FBI’s raid at Seoul Video Store in Chalan Kanoa.
Cho, 46, and Min Jo, 50, both Koreans, were arrested for three counts of copyright infringement.
An FBI agent said that during their search at the Seoul Video Store last March 26, they seized thousands of DVDs and VHS tapes of currently released motion pictures, 32 DVD and VHS players/recorder, 10 boxes of blank DVDRs, 26 boxes of label paper, 10 boxes of VHS labels, 10 DVD “burners”, six bottles of printing ink, and several pages of DVD labels.
The agent said that Cho and Jo admitted to him that they purchased the DVDs from Korea and were copying them onto VHS tapes for sale and rent to customers.
