El Chapo's Lawyers Split on Whether Drug Lord Should be Extradited to United States The Associated Press
go to original May 29, 2016

Jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s fight to stave off extradition to the United States has led to a schism among some of the people he’s counting on most: his own lawyers.

After two of Guzman’s attorneys filed an appeal against the extradition request, a third lawyer quickly disavowed it on Saturday.

Attorney Jose Refugio Rodriguez told The Associated Press that the move was not authorized by Guzman and his client will not sign off on the appeal, meaning the courts would not act on it.

“This hurts Joaquin Guzman because it hinders our defense,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez added that the lawyers who filed it, Juan Pablo Badillo and Jose Luis Gonzalez Mesa, are not part of the team working on the extradition case. That team is still considering the government’s arguments and plans an appeal in the coming weeks that “El Chapo” will approve.

...He suggested that Badillo and Gonzalez may have been motivated by “a desire for notoriety.”

Read the rest at NY Daily News

Related: Mexican Government Unaware of Legal Challenge to Chapo’s Extradition (Latin American Herald Tribune)

Related: Cracks Are Starting to Show in 'El Chapo' Guzmán's Legal Defense (Business Insider)

Related: Mexico Drug Boss Chapo Files Legal Challenge Against Extradition (Reuters)

Related: El Chapo’s Captured Rivals and Spurned Lieutenants Are Lining Up to Testify Against Him (The Daily Caller)

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