judge Brian Cogan rejected Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former security secretary, a proposal to celebrate New trialWith which he will be sentenced next October as planned.
Safety of Garcia Luna I ordered it in March Cancel the lawsuitin which he was found guilty of five charges, and a new charge was filed alleging violation of the Brady Statute and charged false testimony by government witnesses.
Judge Brian Cogan rejects former Mexican security secretary Genaro Garcia Luna’s request for a new trial. Photo: EL UNIVERSAL
“This motion fails for a number of reasons, including that it is relegated to the background – as the defendants all admit – of their failed efforts to bribe inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center (“MDC”). False evidencewhich were presented in this motion without his attorneys’ knowledge (i.e., his attorneys knew they were presenting evidence he had obtained, but did not know it was false).
“Moreover, most of the ‘newly discovered’ evidence consists of facts known or accessible to the defendant prior to trial,” Kogan, of the Eastern District Court in Brooklyn, New York, said in his ruling, “other evidence consists of no facts at all.”
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The judge pointed out that No arguments whatsoever presented by the defencethere are enough to make a new trial, and so, motion is of the accused rejected,
In June, Judge Brian Cogan set a new sentencing date of Oct. 9, which remains in place after the motion was denied.
Garcia Luna, 56, was convicted in February 2023 of participating in a continuing criminal enterprise; conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine; conspiracy to import cocaine; international distribution of cocaine, and making false statements. He could be sentenced to life in prison for these charges.
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He is the highest-ranking person to ever sit on a U.S. bench and could spend the rest of his days in prison.
García Luna defends Sinaloa Cartel lead by Joaquin “el chapo” Guzmansentenced to life imprisonment in the United States, and by Ismail “El Mayo” Zambada According to the New York prosecutor’s office, the millionaire was recently caught in exchange for bribes to be able to send drugs to a neighboring country.
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