In the solitude of his cell, Chapo Guzmán clings to a miracle after the fall of Emma Coronel

Confined in total solitude, in the darkest cell of the Supermax prison, in Florence, Colorado, (USA) Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias El ChapoHe is hoping to appeal his judgment, allegedly because he has been influenced by what has been said about him on the internet, on television and in newspapers around the world.

This Tuesday, after the announcement of an alleged plea deal from his wife, Emma Coronelle and the US government, defending Chapo Guzmán Loera, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, once again insisted on the jury’s “fault” during his trial in New York in 2019.

Defense says in 39-page case district court was wrong to refuse to investigate a report posted on the digital portal Vice News about the “general fault” of the jury, which broke their oath by not following the judge’s instructions not to have contact with what has been published on this legal process.

This media published on February 20, 2019, after Guzmán Loera’s life sentence for drug trafficking, an interview with one of the 12 members of the jury, who spoke on condition of anonymity, which assured that several of his colleagues were reading information about the case during the trial. Mexican capo in the media and social networks.

According to the source, the jury repeatedly lied to Judge Brian Cogan about his exposure to media coverage of the trial. The most famous would be when, the weekend before the start of the deliberations, some court documents were published which ensured that the Chapo had paid to have sex with girls.

After this information was released, Chapo’s defense said what had happened was “deeply disturbing and disturbing” and insisted that, while this was true, his client “had not benefited from it. a fair trial “. He also went to the Court of Appeal to request new proceedings for his client.

Cogan ordered the jury not to read the information on the case, not to investigate the internet, and not to tell anyone about the process. In its arguments for a new trial, the defense again refers to this report insisting that the court must give the case the green light. claim from Guzmán, who is serving his life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.

The defense argued in court in the document filed Friday that at least five jurors “regularly” violated their oath and the judge’s instructions. Moreover, despite the confiscation of their cell phones by the court and their constant warning not to tell anyone about the case, “they repeatedly flouted these guidelines”, which included hushed conversations on the way. of the return in which they commented on the latest news.

Among the “most explosive” findings, at least five jurors and two deputies “knew and spoke” of Guzmán who allegedly drugged and raped girls as young as 13, which they described as “disgusting”, also added defense in the document, in which he specifies to the court his reasons why he should authorize a new procedure. “

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