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'El Chapo' asks for a new trial and appeals his sentence to life imprisonment

2021-10-25T22:43:28.286Z


Lawyers for Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who was found guilty of drug trafficking in 2019, alleged that jurors allegedly violated fairness rules by reading news about the trial.


Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as

El Chapo

, appealed on Monday the life sentence that he was handed down for drug trafficking in 2019 and requested a new trial after considering the previous invalid.

The Mexican kingpin's lawyers argued before the New York Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that his conviction should be overturned because much of the evidence presented is invalid.

They also argued that, before he was found guilty,

several members of the jury had access to journalistic reports about allegations of alleged sexual abuse of his client

, which they say violated the rules of fairness.

["You denied me a fair trial."

This was told by “El Chapo” to the judge before he was sentenced to life imprisonment]

Defense lawyer Marc Fernich denounced before the panel of three judges the conditions in which Guzmán Loera was held before and during the trial, when he spent most of the time in isolation, which they say made it difficult for them to mount a successful defense.

In this July 17, 2019, file photo of a courtroom sketch, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, second from right, listens to his sentence through an interpreter in federal court in New York. Elizabeth Williams / AP

"The prosecution of Guzmán was altered by excesses and excesses, both governmental and judicial, unnecessary resources if he were really a capo of capos as his opponents insisted," Fernich alleged.

In February 2019, a juror anonymously told the Vice News portal that several jurors had read news about the trial as it was going,

something that Judge Brian Cogan had strictly prohibited from doing.

Among the stories they read was a report claiming that

El Chapo

had abused girls whom he referred to as "vitamins" that gave him energy, which was excluded from the trial.

Fernich affirmed this Monday that these articles provoked a prejudiced attitude on the part of the members of the jury towards Guzmán Loera, so the trial was not fair and he asked the judges to at least have a hearing to analyze the issue.

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"You cannot allow that to not be examined," Fernich declared on Monday.

Faced with the arguments that

El Chapo

had not received a fair trial because he had not been allowed to meet long enough with his lawyers to mount an effective defense, federal prosecutors Hiral Mehta and Brett Reynolds said on Monday that he met with their representatives. legal about 20 hours a week.

They also claimed that the jail where he was being held made special arrangements to facilitate those meetings and allow Guzmán to have access to the evidence provided by his lawyers.

You cannot allow that to be unexamined. "

Marc Fernich lawyer for Joaquín Guzmán Loera

The Mexican kingpin was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2019 by a Brooklyn court, which determined that he was the 

leader of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel

, one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the continent, with large interests in the United States.

Unpublished images of 'El Chapo' Guzmán, subjected to an inspection in a prison before being extradited to the United States.

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Guzman's lawyers had already appealed the case to Judge Brian Cogan, who presided over the trial.

However, the magistrate determined on that occasion that an anonymous report in the press was not enough to cancel the entire process.

The three judges on the appellate court panel indicated on Monday that they will evaluate the defense attorneys' request that the trial be annulled and a new one be carried out.

Source: telemundo

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