The appeal of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera has been rejected by the Court in the United States, which means that the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel will continue serving his life sentence plus another 30 years.
The refusal of the request for “El Chapo” Guzmán It implies that there are no modifications to the sentence of life imprisonment plus 30 years in prison handed down by Judge Brian Cogan, of the Federal Court of the Eastern District in Brooklyn, New York.
The founder of the Sinaloa Cartel has asked the United States judicial system on two occasions to revoke his sentence, using the argument that several of the witnesses that prosecutors used to convict him lied or manipulated his role as a criminal. .
“El Chapo” Guzmán Loera He is serving his sentence in the Super Maximum Security prison in Florence, Colorado, from which he will not leave alive, as dictated by Judge Brian Cogan.
The Mexican drug trafficker, who was the leader of one of the factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, was unanimously found guilty of all the drug trafficking and money laundering crimes charged to him by Justice Department prosecutors. Hence his strong sentence.
In the arguments for appealing his sentence, he maintains that some of the incriminating witnesses, such as Jesús Vicente Zambada Niebla, “El Vicentillo,” lied in court before Brian Cogan by assuring that he was one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel that ordered the purchase, transportation and sale of tons of cocaine and other drugs in USA.
“El Vicentillo”, eldest son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcíaboss of bosses Sinaloa Cartelwas the star witness for the prosecutors of USA to prove that “El Chapo” Guzmán He was a drug trafficker of great importance in international organized crime.
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It should be noted that the fact that the son of “El Mayo” Zambada was a key witness against “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera It was one of the elements that gave rise to the bitter war that both factions maintain for control of Sinaloa, and that to date has caused hundreds of people to be murdered and disappeared.
And it does not seem that there is going to be any kind of truce or arrangement, much less an intervention by the authorities.
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