El Chapo trial deliberations in their second week
Jury deliberations in the trial of Mexican druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán stretched into a second week Monday as jurors worked their way through nearly two and a half months of testimony.
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Jury deliberations in the trial of Mexican druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán stretched into a second week Monday as jurors worked their way through nearly two and a half months of testimony.
Jurors in the federal drug-conspiracy trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán have deliberated for three days, writing half a dozen notes to ask legal questions and request testimon
Jurors began deliberating Monday afternoon in the case of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, the beginning of the end to a case that featured 56 witnesses and 200 hours of tes
The prosecution rested its case against Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on Monday, the 35th day of the Mexican druglord's trial in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. Over 50 witnesses have been called so far.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's life hiding from authorities in the mountains of northwest Mexico was filled with military grade weapons and constant worry over being captured.
A key informant in the case against Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman testified in federal court on Tuesday, highlighting his meetings with the reputed cartel boss and the bloody drug war that drove him to cooperate with investigators.
While a US prosecutor painted for a jury the picture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera as the leader of a powerful and murderous drug cartel, his defense lawyer countered that Guzman was a "leader of nothing," a myth, not a feared boss.
Jury selection in the drug conspiracy trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was completed Wednesday, with the reputed kingpin awaiting a federal judge's decision on whether he can briefly embrace his former beauty queen wife before opening statements next week.
When Mexican cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman goes on trial in New York, federal prosecutors are expected to unveil evidence ranging from details of his sensational prison breaks to the drug ledgers of associates, from footage of tons of cocaine concealed in US-bound cans of jalapeños to YouTube video of a rival's torture.
A federal judge in New York granted a government request for an anonymous and partially sequestered jury for the trial of cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.