El Chapo Guzman's Long Fight Against Extradition May be Coming to an End Amanda Macias - Business Insider
go to original November 11, 2016

A member of the "Psalm 100" evangelic church dressed as an angel messenger holds a placard outside of the Cefereso No. 9 prison, where Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is serving time in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The placard reads "Chapo Guzman, your Mother cries out for your soul." (Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)

Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has waged a months-long battle against extradition to the US. The latest salvo came on Tuesday, when his lawyers filed another appeal at a court in Mexico City.

The appeal filed on Tuesday will be reviewed by a panel of judges, called a "college," at the same court that on October 20 rejected a legal challenge to extradition filed by the kingpin.

In the wake of that rejection, Andrés Granados, one of Guzmán's lawyers, told AFP that "We are not defeated." Thus far, Guzmán's appeals have only succeeded in slowing the extradition, not stopping it.

It's not yet known when the latest appeal will get a ruling, Guzmán's attorneys have said they are prepared to take the case all the way up to the country's Supreme Court.

"The attorneys have filed a number of ... legal injunctions to preclude Chapo from being extradited. For each and every injunction, or amparo, that they file they have to have a judicial hearing, which takes time," Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider.

While there are still appeals pending, Guzmán's legal team cannot file an indefinite number of them, and there are indications that Mexico's Supreme Court has little interest in taking up any case involving the cartel chief.

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Related: “El Chapo” Guzmán's Defense Attorney Fears Death Penalty for Cartel Leader if Extradited (El Universal)

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