Judge refuses to delay Brooklyn trial of ‘El Chapo’
A U.S. judge has rejected a request to put off the trial of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Lawyers for Guzman told Judge Brian Cogan at a hearing Thursday that they needed more time to review a mountain of evidence in the drug-trafficking case.
But the New York judge said he was sticking with a schedule that has jury selection beginning Nov. 5. He had already agreed in July to delay the trial by two months.