The conviction of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was upheld on Tuesday by a United States appeals court that praised the trial judge for his handling of a case that drew international attention.The decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected claims that Judge Brian Cogan made rulings allowing a jury to hear faulty evidence at Guzman’s 2019 trial.Cogan “conducted the three-month trial with diligence and fairness, after issuing a series of meticulously crafted pretrial rulings”, the ruling by the panel concluded.
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