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Monday, September 07, 2020

El Chapo appeals life sentence, claiming his trial was unfair

Convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin ” El Chapo” Guzman has appealed the life sentence he was handed a year ago, arguing that his prosecution was rife with “rampant excess and overreach” by the feds and court system.
Defense lawyer Marc Fernich filed the paperwork late Friday in the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, a year after Guzman, 63, the head of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was sentenced to life plus 30 years. He’s been kept in isolation at a supermax prison in Colorado since then.
“Chapo Guzman’s prosecution was marred by rampant excess and overreach, both governmental and judicial,” Fernich wrote in the 250-page appeal, filed under seal to avoid making confidential material from the investigation public.
Guzman was found guilty of running a massive, drug trafficking empire that for decades pumped billions of dollars worth of narcotics into the U.S.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

... when he was only selling joints for a buck each at the border.

Anonymous said...

Oh hell, just turn him loose out of prison, cause he might get the virus in there.

Anonymous said...

He should have SHOT by firing squad Period !!! No Justice in America