Chapo Guzmán’s wife filed a letter with the District of Columbia Court confirming her resignation. The document will be published on March 19, 2021.
Chapo Guzmán’s wife, Emma Coronel, has relinquished her right to a preliminary hearing in the drug trafficking case that US authorities are developing against her.
The Colonel is charged with conspiring to distribute narcotics in the North American nation. In February, she was captured at Washington International Airport and then sent to Alexandria Jail, Virginia.
On Friday, he was known through a document presented to the District of Columbia Court in which he, along with his attorney Jeffrey Licthman, declares that he is aware of his criminal charges and that he has been informed of his privileges.
“I agree to waive my right to a preliminary hearing under the Fed. R. Crim. P. 5.1 or Fed. R. Crim. Page 32.1 ”, reads the document, dated March 19, 2021.
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The reasons why the 32-year-old model made this decision are not officially known, but experts point out that under federal criminal procedure law, there are at least 14 reasons why the defendant could resign. and they add that clauses 5.1 and 32.1 are strictly related to “changing the position so that the accused can appear or gain time and decide how to proceed”.
The journalist, Juan Alberto Vásquez, of Milenio.com, also points out that under the same law, one of the reasons for the waiver of this right is that the suspect can be released due to lack of evidence.
“It may also be that” the reasonable time “of 14 days after the first appearance if the suspect is in custody has been met without a set date for the next,” the medium published.
Another reason being considered is that “the judge in the trial finds no probable reason to believe that the suspect has committed a crime, so he should dismiss the complaint and release the suspect,” he added.
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Since February 22, the model has been held in prison, where she is not allowed to leave her small cell. His lawyer and friend Mariel Colón recently said that he keeps the light on 24 hours a day, gets cold at night, and shouldn’t bathe for days.
Coronel is not in a maximum-security prison like her husband, she has been able to talk to her nine-year-old daughters Emali Guadalupe and María Joaquina twice, and her lawyer says the phone calls helped her up her glee.
“She can only talk to her close family and her girls, she has already spoken to them twice, she feels very happy to hear the voices of her little ones as she misses them very much, her little ones ahead of her are the light of her eyes, ”the lawyer said in an interview with Telemundo.
Coronel, who reportedly helped coordinate the operation of the Sinaloa Cartel, could face a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum life sentence, in addition to a possible fine of $ 10 million, if found guilty of the criminal charges against drug trafficking in her.