The judge gives another month to the lawyers of "El Chapo" to request the repetition of his trial in the United States

The American judge Brian Cogan, in charge of the American trial in Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, gave an extra month to the defense of the Mexican drug dealer to request a new trialafter knowing that some members of the jury might have violated the magistrate's rules on several occasions.

February 12th Chapo Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, He was convicted of ten drug-related crimes by a jury that deliberated for six daysin a process that lasted almost four months.

The Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Brooklyn stated that the judge granted an extension of time to request a new trial requested by Chapo's defense last Friday, after knowing that at least five members of the jury would have violated Cogan's orders not to be informed of the case by the media during the trial.

The Chapo defense requested an additional one month extension for the fourteen day delay from the jury verdict in order to request a new trial., because of new information known and likely to have affected your customer.

The judge reminded at each sitting of the proceedings that the jurors could not learn more about the Mexican capo case. through the media or social networks to avoid contamination during deliberations.

However, in an interview with the newspaper Vice, One of the members of the jury, under the guise of anonymity, declared that he was constantly consulting the social networks of the reporters present at the court and who, on several occasions, had misled the judge this regard.

The most talked about would have been when, the weekend before the beginning of the deliberations, some court documents have been published that El Chapo paid for bad with girls.

According to this member of the jury, he learned on Twitter that the magistrate could meet them, so He warned the other jurors that if they had seen what had happened, they would keep a calm expression and deny it.

With information from EFE