He said the Vice News report - based on a post-conviction interview with a juror who wasn’t named - amounted to “hearsay and double hearsay.” Attorney Hiral Mehta argued the lower court was right to reject the defense request for a hearing on the jury issue because there was no valid evidence of misconduct. “This is serious stuff,” the judge later added.Īssistant U.S. Lynch, who said it was “a not bad argument.” The legal claims resonated with Circuit Judge Gerard E. “I’m not asking you to play violins for him. “The guy is going to be in a box for the rest of his life,” Fernich said. He asked the judges to resist any “punitive impulse” toward someone who was cast as a “public enemy” like gangster Al Capone. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, attorney Marc Fernich cited a news report that during deliberations jurors were exposed to salacious claims that were barred from the trial, including that Guzman sexually abused girls he referred to as “vitamins” that gave him energy.įernich argued the court should order a new trial or at least call for a hearing on the alleged jury misconduct.

conspiracy conviction of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmanbecause of claims that his anonymous jury flouted warnings to avoid media accounts of the case, a lawyer for Guzman urged a three-judge panel on Monday, catching the attention of at least one judge. NEW YORK (AP) - An appeals court should overturn the U.S.

Sketch trial non stop