A lawyer for Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman urged a U.S. appeals court on Monday to overturn the Mexican drug kingpin's conviction, citing juror misconduct and the jail conditions that Guzman experienced.
NEW YORK -- A lawyer for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman urged a U.S. appeals court on Monday to overturn the Mexican drug kingpin's conviction, citing juror misconduct and the jail conditions that Guzman experienced.
Guzman, 64, was convicted in February 2019 of trafficking billions of dollars of drugs and conspiring to murder enemies, as a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. The coverage included a claim that Guzman had drugged and raped teenage girls, which Guzman's lawyers have denied. " we think the district court was incorrect to say 'taking all this as true it still doesn't matter,' then that undercuts a large part of your abuse of discretion argument," Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch told Mehta.