It's a fairly popular judicial genre in the courts: the reading of expected assassins followed by a relatively lenient judgment.
The scene took place on Tuesday before the 11th correctional chamber in Paris, when President Isabelle Prévost-Desprez delivered the deliberation of her training in a case involving two well-known lawyers.
To sum up, Messrs Joseph Cohen-Sabban, 69, and Xavier Nogueras, 42, were answerable for breach of professional secrecy and complicity in attempted fraud in judgment, in the context of an international drug trafficking case.
Their client, a 50-year-old Briton named Robert Dawes, aka "Drug Lord"
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was sentenced to 22 years in prison for arranging the importation of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine.
Explosive documents
During his trial at the specially composed assizes, in December 2018, his defense had filed explosive documents: according to him, a Spanish procedure, pillar of the accusation thanks to overwhelming wiretapping for Mr. Dawes…
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