Signed by Chapo himself on September 6 and made public by the court this week, the prisoner requests “dismiss the charge, order a trial, or schedule an evidentiary hearing” by claiming that he was “denied the right to the effective assistance of a lawyer.”
The biggest drug trafficker in the history of Mexico bases his new appeal on the fact that his lawyer gave him a “ineffective assistance” by not requesting to inspect before a camera the documents that were presented to Mexico to support the extradition request.
The Mexican authorities allowed, according to him, that he be tried in Brooklyn and not in Texas or California as had been stipulated in the extradition request.
“This omission prejudiced the petitioner’s rights on appeal and prevented him from presenting an adequate record in support of the challenge” of the conditions of extradition, reads the document.
Also, despite the slim chance that he would have been acquitted, the lawyer also did not “no effort” for “secure favorable treatment through negotiation”what you “deprived of a fair trial.”
It is not the first time that the drug trafficker has appealed his conviction. One day after the sentence was known, the defense requested a new trial alleging that the one carried out in 2019 was clouded “for unbridled excess and for the excess of powers of both the government and the judicial system.”
On January 25, the Court of Appeals confirmed the life sentence imposed on him by the investigating judge in the case, Brian Cogan, concluding that the trial held in the federal court in Brooklyn, which lasted three months, was “diligent and fair”.
El Chapo was found guilty of the 10 felonies of which the US justice accused him of drug trafficking, money laundering and use of firearms. On July 18, 2019, the justice sentenced him to life in prison, a sentence that he is serving in the ADX Florence maximum security prison, located in the mountainous desert of Colorado.
The justice accused him of having introduced into the country during a quarter of a century 1.44 tons of cocaine paste, 222 kg of heroin, almost 50 tons of marijuana and “quantities” of methamphetamine.
The entrance “El Chapo” Guzmán asks for release or new trial was first published in diary TODAY.
