Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 4h4 hours ago
Alan Feuer Retweeted Keegan Hamilton
If the jury breaks out a request for all testimony concerning the Chapo's red-headed personal secretary, Chinacate, I will literally bow down in awe to them.
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Keegan HamiltonVerified account @keegan_hamilton
These were some super deep cuts by the jury. Me and
@alanfeuer have been following this case as closely as anyone and neither of us could remember Chespiro or Juan Aguayo. The jury stumped us at Chapo trial trivia.
1:00 PM - 5 Feb 2019
Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 3h3 hours ago
No verdict at end of Day 2 of deliberations. A day and a half of jury talks is no time at all. Still the questions asked and the requests made to re-hear testimony and phone calls suggest the jurors are taking their jobs seriously and diligently going through the evidence.
Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 3h3 hours ago
There was an interesting, if hard-to-read, moment after the note asking for all of Alex and Jorge Cifuentes' testimony was handed up.
Rich Donoghue, the US atty in Brooklyn, came into the courtroom for what at least looked like a serious conversation w/the prosecution team.
Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 3h3 hours ago
Donoghue huddled with the team. It's not known what he said but the huddle took place only moments after the possibility that a multi-day read back of testimony was in the offing. That's not going to happen. But it suggests how seriously the trial team is taking every small turn.
Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 2h2 hours ago
Jurors at the Chapo trial faced their first hurdle by listening to 11 weeks of evidence.
Their second? Working through an 8-page verdict sheet with 53 separate boxes they have to check off.
Why the El Chapo Jury Is Taking Its Time - The New York Times
Why the El Chapo Jury Is Taking Its Time
Feb. 5, 2019
"Even though jurors in the trial of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera have spent nearly three months in the courtroom, they seem to be in no rush to go home. In a day and a half of deliberations, they have already written four notes with substantive questions and requests for evidence, including one that asked for more than a week’s worth of testimony from three witnesses.
It is difficult to glean much information from a jury’s notes, but those that have been sent so far by the jurors in this case suggest that the panel is making a genuine effort to sort through more than 10 weeks of testimony and exhibits.
That is a daunting task, not only because of the volume of the evidence, but also because jurors must work through an eight-page verdict sheet with 53 boxes that must be checked “Guilty or Not Guilty,” “Proven or Not Proven,” or simply “Yes or No.”
The verdict sheet is based on the indictment charging Mr. Guzmán, who is best known as El Chapo, with 10 separate counts, the most important of which accuses him of being a leader of a “continuing criminal enterprise” from 1990 to 2014.
The enterprise count is composed of 27 violations, most of which allege that Mr. Guzmán arranged specific drug deals, from 400 kilograms of marijuana to nearly 20 tons of cocaine. There is also a murder conspiracy violation that claims he either personally killed or ordered the deaths of dozens of people.
The other counts accuse Mr. Guzmán of making, importing and distributing drugs; using firearms to further his operation; and conspiring to launder the profits of his empire.
Complicating matters, four of the violations listed under the enterprise charge are also included as separate counts on the verdict sheet. Another twist: the jury cannot consider the firearms and money laundering counts, unless it first finds that Mr. Guzmán is guilty of at least one of the drug counts.
On Monday morning, it took Judge Brian M. Cogan, who is handling the case, almost three hours to instruct the jurors on how to proceed...."
Why the El Chapo Jury Is Taking Its Time
Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 9m9 minutes ago
Something I forgot, on deadline, to mention in this story: Someone on the jury is taking extremely detailed notes. They were able to request one of scores of phone calls by its exact exhibit number. I don’t even have it in my notes but it’s something like 604T-FB whatever.
Alan Feuer @alanfeuer 7m7 minutes ago
And no, I’m not listening to the SOTU. God bless Chapo for that...
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