The convicted drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman will require a new trial, after that it has emerged that members of the jury violated a prohibition to follow the case in the media.
this was stated by The lawyers for the 61-year-old mexican in a letter to the court, writes the Associated Press.
A member of the jury has told Vice News that at least five members of the panel discussed the media’s coverage of the trial, although it was forbidden. The fear was that the media coverage could influence the jury.
– We got the message that we are not forced to follow the media during the trial? But we did so! The jury did it, ” says the anonymous member of the jury to the Vice.
Guzmans lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman says his high-profile client has requirements on an impartial jury.
– As a each other, who is charged with a crime in America, Joaquin Guzman the right to a fair trial – and a verdict that is decided by an impartial jury, says Lichtman.
– It was clearly not the case here.
Guzmans lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman. Photo: Reuters
the Prosecution has not commented on the matter.
Guzman was after a lengthy trial in New York pleaded guilty in to stand in the forefront of a global narkoimperium. Sentencing will take place 25. June, and it is expected that he will be sentenced to life in prison.
the Trial lasted for three months, and more than 50 people have testified in the case, where it has been revealed how Sinaloa cartel earned billions of dollars to smuggle tons of cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and marijuana to the UNITED states.
‘El Chapo’ is one of the central figures in the mexican narkokrig that has ravaged the country since 2006.
In 2017, he was extradited to the UNITED states after being arrested in Mexico.
OVERVIEW: Mexico’s biggest drug lord began with pot
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán is on Tuesday at a court in New York has been found guilty of all ten charges against him.
The sentencing will take place 25. June.
Here is a timeline of the 61-year-old mexicaners life. He has become one of the world’s most famous narkogangstere.
1960s: As a teenager, he begins together with his cousins to grow potplanter.
the 1970s: Starts working as stikirenddreng for drug traffickers.
the 1980s: Becomes a member of the Guadalajara cartel. After the arrest of the cartel leader of the criminal group split up into several factions. Guzmán becomes the leader of the cartel, Sinaloas stillehavsafdeling.
1992: Six of the Guzmáns of top officials will be in February found killed near Tijuana, at the border to the UNITED states. In november beats Guzmán back, as his people, killing six members of the rival Tijuana cartel at a disco.
1993: Survives assassination attempt in an airport, but the archbishop of Guadalajara, along with six other random people killed when they get caught up in skudvekslingen.
1993: arrested in Guatemala on suspicion of murder, drug smuggling and the abduction and extradition to Mexico. He imposed a penalty of a minimum of 20 years, to be served in a maximum security prison.
2001: Escaping from the prison hidden in a vasketøjsvogn. The escape requires help from the inside, and he uses the supposedly 2.5 million dollar bribe.
2004: the US government should offer a bounty of five million u.s. dollars for information that could lead to his arrest.
2008: the Son of Edgar is killed in a firefight in a parking lot in Mexico.
2009: Perform for the first time on pengemagasinet Forbes’ list of dollarmilliardærer.
2010: Getting together with other kartelledere indicted by us authorities in the period from 1990 to 2005 to smuggle tons of cocaine to the UNITED states.
2011: His wife, Emma, who has both american and mexican citizenship, gives birth to twins at a hospital in Los Angeles.
2012: the ministry of Finance in the UNITED states imposes a freezing of his family’s fortune and other assets in the country.
2014: arrested on a strandresort in Mexico, and resumes the execution of his sentence.
2015: Escapes again from a maximum security prison by crawling through a small opening in his cell, which leads down to an approximately one and a half kilometer long tunnel.
2015: While he is on the run he meets the film star Sean Penn, who interviews him for an article in the Rolling Stone.
– I deliver more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anyone else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, aircraft, trucks and boats, he says.
2016: Will be in January again caught by the mexican police in the state of Sinaloa. Five of his henchmen is killed in the action.
2016: In may approve a judge a request from the UNITED states to extradite him. Seven states have been indicted by him.
2017: Will be extradited to the UNITED states in January and admits himself later in the same month innocent by a district court in New York.
2018: The long-awaited trial against him will be launched in november.
2019: ‘El Chapo’ is found guilty of a long series of crimes by a court in New York.
Source: CNN, AP.
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