The 62-year-old former leader of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted last year of crimes spanning a quarter of a century, including trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana.
NEW YORK - Convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman has appealed against his life sentence handed down a year ago by a US court for trafficking hundreds of tons of narcotics into the country.
"Chapo Guzman's prosecution was marred by rampant excess and overreach, both governmental and judicial," his lawyer Marc Fernich wrote in the appeal, presented late Friday to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. She added that the complete isolation imposed on Guzman since his extradition to the US in January 2017 prevented him from collaborating on his defence both before and after the trial.
During Guzman's reign, his cartel's empire expanded across the globe, its tentacles stretching from the Americas to Europe and Asia.
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