00:00When people think of Chapo Guzmán, they think of fear, they think of a monster.
00:04And that has obviously been a very difficult case.
00:09But the most important thing here, and what failed, is that although it is an indefensible case,
00:30the US system, the justice system, had to do everything possible and take extra precautions.
00:36The sentence was expected.
00:38At first, Mr. Guzmán, and we knew that if he went to trial and was found guilty,
00:43the minimum mandatory sentence for the crime of criminal enterprise was life imprisonment.
00:51Even if Judge Coburn had wanted, for example, to give Mr. Guzmán only one year in prison,
00:56he couldn't, because the law forbids it.
00:58Mr. Guzmán was already thinking of moving forward with the appeal process.
01:06In the case of Chapo Guzmán, there were only two lawyers who spoke Spanish.
01:15I was the only one who spent three to six hours a day with Mr. Guzmán, seven days a week.
01:22I don't think Mr. Guzmán had a fair trial.
01:25That's why we filed a motion with Judge Coburn to request a new trial.
01:30The day after the verdict, a member of the jury went anonymously to Vice News,
01:37where reporter Kegan Hamilton, to talk about what had happened behind the scenes.
01:45What he said happened behind the scenes is that during the two and a half months of the trial,
01:49the jury did not abstain from seeing the media, the press, that external information.
01:58A member of the jury, part of the rules that that jury has to follow under oath,
02:05is that he cannot do certain things.
02:07One of those things is to look at the press so that it is not contaminated with external information.
02:12Many things were spoken about Mr. Guzmán that were not true and had nothing to do with the evidence.
02:17For example, what was alleged that Mr. Guzmán had sexually abused 13-year-old girls,
02:22completely false, did not come out within the trial.
02:27But nevertheless, the members of the jury saw that.
02:29And of course, of course, that is going to affect a person.
02:33That is, of course, it is going to prejudice him, it is going to put him at a disadvantage.
02:37And that's what happened with our client.
02:41He is completely isolated, in solitary confinement.
02:58The only people he interacts with, and really not every day,
03:02is with the guards when they bring him his food.
03:04And the rest of the week he spends it completely alone.
03:08I can continue now, I am not going to leave my client at all.
03:11I continue with Mr. Guzmán until the end.
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