Former head of the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has filed a petition for a judge to vacate his life sentence.
Guzman is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security Colorado federal prison after being found guilty in February 2019 of trafficking tons of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs into the United States. He previously escaped two prisons in Mexico. His wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, helped orchestrate his most recent escape in 2015. He was recaptured the following year.
No inmate has ever escaped from the supermax prison Administrative Maximum Facility, also known as “ADX,” in Florence, Colorado, since 1994.
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The court request is reportedly full of claims of unfair extradition by the U.S. and unconstitutional treatment by prosecutors and digs at his previous defense attorneys. It is notably not signed by a lawyer, but Guzman himself.
The former cartel leader was held in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center for 30 months before being convicted and has since spent over three years at ADX. His wife was sentenced to three years in prison last November following a plea deal in which Coronel Aispuro admitted to her role in the cartel.
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For now, Guzman’s company includes some 400 male inmates including convicted felons such as the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, co-conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing Terry Nichols, and al Qaeda operative and 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
