Former President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to receive a court ruling Friday on charges he obstructed investigators' attempt to detain him last year, the first verdict on cases stemming from his 2024 declaration of martial law. Special counsel Cho Eun-suk's team sought a 10-year prison term for Yoon last month on obstruction of justice and other charges, saying the former president committed a "grave crime" by "privatizing" state institutions with the aim of concealing and justifying his criminal acts. A verdict is set to be delivered at the Seoul Central District Court at 2 p.m. The session will be televised live after the court accepted broadcasters' request. Yoon is accused of ordering the Presidential Security Service to block investigators' execution of a warrant to detain him in January last year, violating the rights of nine Cabinet members who were not called to a meeting to review his martial law plan, and drafting and later destroying a revised proclamation after the martial law decree was lifted. In addition, the former president has been charged with ordering the distribution of pr