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An appeals court refuses to annul the conviction against 'El Chapo' and rejects his complaints about his trial and imprisonment

2022-01-25T16:51:19.287Z


The lawyers of the Mexican drug trafficker anticipate that they could go before the Supreme Court alleging irregularities of the members of the jury during the judicial process.


The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in Manhattan, confirmed on Tuesday the conviction for drug trafficking against the Mexican capo Joaquín

El Chapo

Guzmán.

The court rejected the arguments that Guzmán's lawyers raised to request the annulment of the trial against him, among them, the alleged misconduct of the jury and the deplorable conditions he lived in jail.

"I am sure that Mr. Guzmán will seek review by the Supreme Court," the defendant's lawyer, Marc Fernich, told Reuters in an email.

Guzmán was convicted in February 2019 of trafficking billions of dollars in drugs and conspiring to assassinate enemies, stemming from his role as leader of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel.

He has been serving a life sentence at Colorado's Supermax, the most secure federal prison, and has also been ordered to forfeit $12.7 billion.

Source: telemundo

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