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Noted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán appealed against the life sentence he received last year in the United States, his lawyers said.
The 245-page request was filed in a New York appeals court, where the procedure “could take two to five years.”
“We are very optimistic that we will have a new trial,” El Chapo’s lawyer, Mariel Colón Miro, said, according to Le Figaro.
According to the lawyer, the first trial should be annulled, because one of the jurors later told the press that he and several of his colleagues consulted information about the case in the press and on social networks, which was prohibited.
The lawyer also claims that the total isolation to which “El Chapo” was subjected since his extradition to the United States in January 2017 prevented him from adequately preparing his defense, Mediafax writes.
Co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, “El Chapo” was considered at that time the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. He was sentenced in July 2019 to life in prison by a Brooklyn federal court for transporting at least 1,200 tons of cocaine to the United States over a quarter of a century. “El Chapo” has been held in a high security prison in Colorado since his conviction.
GM writing
