Mexican drug baron lawyer asks for a push back trial

The lawyer for imprisoned kingpin drug Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Friday asked for his client's trial to be postponed, arguing that it would make it impossible to prepare the defense in time.

In a motion filed Friday, lawyer Eduardo Balarezo said he learned that the US government had produced around 117,000 audio files and 1,125 pages of documents – along with pictures and video – two months before the scheduled trial for September 5.

"The government's last-minute production of massive quantities of discovery obliterates any semblance of due process and Mr. Guzman's ability to have a fair trial," Balarezo said.

"It's coming to Mexico on Friday to extradited the United States" key witness "against Guzman, the deputy attorney general said.

Mexican Guzman has been held in solitary confinement in the US since he was extradited there by Mexican authorities in January 2017.

Damascus Lopez, known as "The Lawyer" and Guzman's right-hand, is one of the world's biggest drug trade empires. Man, "was handed over in Juarez, Chihuahua" in the country's north, deputy general attorney Alberto Elias said in a message to the press.

"Potentially a key witness" against Guzman, the 52-year-old will be tried in a court in Virginia for "criminal association and crimes against health," added Elias.

The message was accompanied by a video of a police station. A photograph of a man in a uniform prison of an airplane.

Lopez, who was a leader in the Sinaloa cartel after Guzman's capture, was captured in a spectacular army-led operation in Mexico City in May 2017.

His capture in the northeast of Sinaloa, in the northeast, as a bloody power-struggle raged over the drug cartel's throne.

Lopez had been the deputy director of the Puente Grande prison in the country's west in 2001

According to the US Treasury Department, Lopez rose to the rank of a prominent Sinaloa cartel lieutenant after helping Guzman in his first escape from a maximum security prison.

The two have a strong bond : Guzman is the godfather of Lopez 's son, who had formed an armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel and crossed the border and turned himself into the United States

13 years, Guzman, whose nickname means "shorty" in English, was caught in 2014 before escaping again

Damaso Lopez is flanked by Mexican armed forces following his capture in May, 2017