Lawyer for Marine Jailed in Mexico Believes He Is Close to Gaining His Client's Release Tony Perry - The Los Angeles Times
go to original September 10, 2014

Bonnie McAdams joins others calling for the release of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi outside the Stanford Mansion in Sacramento, where Mexican President Enrique Peñ Nieto was visiting in August. (The Los Angeles Times/Tim Donnelly)

The lawyer for a U.S. Marine held in a Mexican prison since April 1 on weapons charges said Wednesday that, after three evidentiary hearings, he was optimistic that he was close to a ruling that would free his client.

"Although the trial is ongoing and there's evidence still pending, we feel optimistic and close to a favorable intermediate ruling," Fernando Benitez, attorney for Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, said in a series of Twitter messages.

Although the trial is ongoing and there's evidence still pending, we feel optimistic and close to a favorable intermediate ruling. - Fernando Benitez, attorney for Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, in a series of Twitter messages.

Benitez spent Tuesday in an eight-hour hearing before a federal judge in Tijuana in which video from 18 surveillance cameras was shown from the night that his client was detained and then arrested.

Benitez argues that his client's rights were violated by Mexican customs agents who arrested him at the San Ysidro border crossing.

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