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El Chapo Trial: If you blinked you may have missed the defenses case
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 10:12
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Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat with material from keegan hamilton
Prosecutors = 11 weeks, 56 witnesses. Those defending a man fighting for his life?
One hostile witness for less than 30 minutes
If you blinked, you may have missed the defense’s case in the El Chapo trial. It is about enough for one to begin feeling a bit of sympathy for the Sinaloa capo.
Whereas the government was a song of overkill, the defense’s defense case was underwhelming at best, actually it was non-existent. And it wasn’t that they didn’t have a bit of arsenal in their defense bag. For me, it was a case of missed opportunities.
Speechless.
I have sat on multiple criminal juries, just as I am sure some of you have. Can you imagine what is in the minds of the jurors? Keeping in mind, jurors only hear a portion of what is going on in court. They must be very confused.
And they are not alone.
Defense Case
FBI agent Paul Roberts took the stand.
He conducted a 2017 interview with Jorge Cifuentes, taking notes. Jorge is Alex’ brother and testified before Alex.
Defense Attorney Jeffery Lichtman zeroed in on ONE aspect from that interview.
The defense called only one witness. And an antagonistic witness at that, an FBI agent.
In the notes taken by the agent, Jorge said that in 2010 he met with a US intelligent officer who had a USB stick loaded with evidence with respect to the Cifuentes-Villa/Sinaloa Cartel investigation.
Lichtman offers that Jorge tapped into that USB to present the story that prosecutors wanted to hear.
Agent Roberts said his notes showed that Jorge said he met with an Intelligence Officer. However, on cross, prosecutors raised questions about whether the FBI agent was certain Jorge said the officer was American.
Roberts was taking notes by hand through a translator.
The agent was not happy being there and surely did not want to help Chapo, this led to moments of argumentative banter between the agent and Lichtman.
This led to Judge Cogan interjecting; “Mr. Lichtman, he’s your witness.” This evoked laughter from the jury.
And that is all she wrote folks.
Judge Cogan sent the jury home for the day. Judge Cogan will conference with attorney for the remainder of the day.
The government will give its closing on Wednesday. The defense in Thursday. Verdict watch could be as soon as Friday.
The defense better hit a home run in closing. But don’t wait to exhale.
