As Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán stands trial, his lawyer said there’s no need to keep the jury anonymous. It would even be unfair, he argued.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors have requested on Jan. 5 for the jurors in Guzmán’s case to be anonymous and partially sequestered because “the defendant has a history of interference with the judicial process (e.g. two dramatic prison escapes; history of employing ‘sicarios,’ or hitmen, against potential witnesses)” and also because “the defendant has the means to interfere with the judicial process; and this case has drawn intense media scrutiny,” The New York Daily News and Borderland Beat reported.
