New
Book on Guilty Verdicts of JOH Honduras Ex
President Narco Drama by Inner City Press
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Substack
LITERARY
COURTHOUSE,
March 8 – In the closing
arguments on March 6, AUSA
Tarlow said that narco
trafficking had grown under
JOH. On March 7, out of the
hearing of the jury and for
then the Press, JOH's lawyer
Stabile said he'd heard
different overnight.
From who?
The
defendant's wife he said.
Was this
just a play for a mistrial?
Judge Castel
concluded it was, and denied
Stabile's motion, Order on
Patreon here.
Later on March 8,
the verdict, here-
now a book
1:18 pm Eastern -
Inner City Press heard through
sources that there's a verdict
in US v. JOH
Now 1:26 pm-
Judge Castel: Please take the
verdict. Clerk: Count 1, Has
the government proven 5 or
more kilos: Foreman: Yes
Clerk: Count 2,
does it involve machine guns?
Foreman: Yes. Clerk: Count 3,
how do you find? Foreman:
Guilty [on all three] - and
destructive device. [JOH
GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS CULPABLE
DE TODOS LOS CARGOS
And now, "Narco
Drama: The trial of Honduras'
JOH," here.
Some: The former president of
Honduras demanded a new
lawyer. His first one, he said
he could no longer pay. Anyway
the man was getting sick, and
had been picked in the first
instance by a rabbi who was
reporting to the Drug
Enforcement Agency. So Juan
Orlando Hernandez spoke to the
judge, first in open court,
then obscured by white noise
at the sidebar. Kurt Wheelock
knew he had to write
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