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The 245-page petition was presented to a New York appeals court, where the case “can take between two and five years,” El Chapo’s attorney, Mariel Coron Miro, told France-Presse.
The lawyer stressed that the first trial should be reversed because one of the jurors later told the media that he and several of his colleagues, while sitting down, had consulted information about the case in the press and on social media, that it was forbidden to do.
The lawyer also says that the total isolation to which “El Chapo” has been subjected since his extradition to the United States in January 2017 has prevented him from adequately preparing his defense.
Co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, “El Chapo” was considered at that time as the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.
He was sentenced in July 2019 to life in prison for transporting at least 1,200 tons of cocaine to the United States over a quarter of a century.
Since his conviction, “El Chapo” has been held in a high security prison in Colorado.
