El Chapo Asks To Hug His Wife

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

After two years away from his family and with little contact with other human beings, the capo Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán has only one request to the judge presiding over his trial: to let him embrace his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro.

According to legal documents cited by TMZ, attorneys for the Sinaloa cartel chief have asked federal judge Brian M. Cogan to allow him to hug his wife when she attends the trial to be held in the Brooklyn, New York court. which is scheduled to start next Tuesday.

The lawyers, always according to TMZ, appeal to "humanitarian" reasons for permission to be granted to their client, who they say has been without seeing Coronel for two years or being able to communicate with his family due to the strict isolation regime that has been issued to him. imposed since his extradition in January 2017.

They contend that at that time the only contact with the outside world has been sporadic encounters with his legal team, which has had a negative impact on his mental health.

"Mr. Guzmán's only human contact since his extradition has been with the prison staff when they put the chains on and off, and a quick handshake with his lawyers when he goes to court," the document states, according to TMZ.

The lawyers' petition appears to confirm that the defendant's wife, who has previously traveled to New York to attend her husband's court hearings, will attend the trial, which will be held amid high security measures and a huge expectation.

The federal prosecution accuses Guzmán of leading a complex criminal organization based in Sinaloa that for three decades and through brutal methods - including thousands of murders - managed to enter the United States drug shipments valued at $ 14,000 million.

Consequently, they charge him with drug trafficking, criminal organization and bribery, of which, if found guilty, he could be sentenced to life in prison.