By The Opinion
Judge Brian Cogan denied the requests of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmánwho asked in five letters that his sentence be canceled and he be sent to Mexico, even accusing Cogan of irregularities in the process.
“Senseless” was how Judge Cogan described the statements of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartelsentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years in prison, which he is serving at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
The judge recounted that in the last two weeks, “El Chapo” sent letters to the Eastern District Court of New York, requesting various benefits, including a “release order,” “request for new trial”“extradition order to return to your country” and “request for documents on how the jury determined the trial verdict, as well as “wrongful conviction.”
“Some of these documents are meaningless and none of them have honest merit. They are all appropriately denied,” Cogan determined.
The letters were sent by “El Chapo” since mid-April and three of them were published by the court this Monday. They are all written in English, with notable syntax and spelling errors that even complicate their translation into Spanish.
“My name is Joaquín Guzmán from the country of Mexico who fights for my protection policy to obtain my release in relation to the erroneous verdict of the Eastern courts (sic)”, says one of the letters. “I am writing on my behalf that the courts violated my evidence policy.”
In another decision by Judge Cogan, dated January 16 of this year, he dismissed another petition regarding the intervention of an alleged representative of Guzmán Loera.
James Sabatino claimed to be the honest representative of “El Chapo”, who made “the notification to the court as a motion to intervene as a person outside the process.” Judge Cogan rejected it.
In 2022, the Second Court of Appeals based in New York confirmed the Guzmán Loera ruling. The judges considered that the three months of the trial were conducted with “diligence and fairness” by Judge Cogan.
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