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The seven women and five men who make up the jury at the trial Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Suited Tuesday reunited in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, for the second consecutive day, to settle when he considers the Mexican drug charges.
Yesterday ended the first day of its deliberations without reaching a verdict on the ten counts of drug trafficking to which the Mexican Sinaloa is sentenced to a possible life sentence to the States. -United.
The jury has been in court since the beginning of the morning and is studying the ten complex charges, for the events that occurred between 1989 and 2014, the main one of which is the maintenance of a criminal enterprise to smuggle tons of drugs to United States.
If today and in the coming days the verdict is not reached, the jury will also meet on Friday., which was not usual at the trial.
Jurors are escorted from their homes to the courthouse by federal MPs and return home, as part of the security measures taken as part of this process against Guzmán Loera, considered the most powerful drug lord after the Colombian Pablo Escobar Gaviria.
The seven women and five men, whose identity must remain anonymous for security reasons, began yesterday their planned deliberation after listening in the morning, for three hours and a half, the instructions of the Judge Brian Cogan.
The magistrate explained each of the ten charges and 27 violations forming part of the main charge, to maintain the criminal enterprise.
These violations to conspire to distribute cocaine and heroin internationally and to murder anyone who represents a threat to the Sinaloa cartel.
The other nine counts are also linked to a conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine (in varying quantities and on different dates), to the use of weapons and the conspiracy to launder money from drug trafficking.
Emily Palmer, a New York Times reporter covering the case, recounted in her official Twitter account the curious moment when the press mistakenly believed that the jury had delivered its verdict.
"There is still no verdict … just before noon, a reporter misinterpreted an email containing the word" verdict. "We broke into the elevator, we removed our belts and our shoes before going through the security measures, the officers just laughed ".
According to Palmer, a journalist threw his phone in the bin so he could quickly get control of the police to the courtroom. All this for a false alarm.
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