El Chapo will appear in person in Brooklyn federal court
The Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, better known as “El Chapo,” is scheduled to make an in-person appearance in Brooklyn’s federal court on Friday.
This is a change as a federal judge ruled last week that Guzman was ordered to appear in court via video rather than have marshals escort him to and from his high-security jail cell in Manhattan. However, his lawyers asked the judge for permission for him to make a personal appearance and a new order permitting him to attend the trial was issued.
Guzman has been charged with running one of the world’s biggest drug-trafficking operations that involved smuggling, brutality and corruption that led to a cocaine epidemic in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s that brought with it drug abuse and violence.
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