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Asks Caro Quintero to Change Prison; Accuses Confinement

Mexico City.- The defense of capo Rafael Caro Quintero requested the court that conducts his case in Brooklyn, United States, the relocation to another "more appropriate and less restrictive" penal to avoid his isolation, his right to free expression and effective legal assistance. "Therefore, for the reasons stated, the defense requests the total annulment of the SAM (Special Administrative Measures), the release of Mr. Quintero from confinemen…

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Rafael Caro Quintero joined Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán in denouncing isolation and lack of communication as part of his detention in a U.S. prison. Mark DeMarco, Caro Quintero’s lawyer, stated in a letter that measures are being taken in New York prison to violate his client’s physical and emotional integrity. “Mr. Quintero is essentially confined to a small cell without windows. He remains alone in this cell for 23 hours a day from Monday to Fri…

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The lawyers of Rafael Caro Quintero, the historic Mexican drug trafficker accused of murdering a DEA agent 40 years ago, have asked the judge this Friday to lift the isolation measures that were implemented at the request of the U.S. Attorney General.

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Mexico City.- The defense of capo Rafael Caro Quintero requested the court that conducts his case in Brooklyn, United States, the relocation to another "more appropriate and less restrictive" penal to avoid his isolation, his right to free expression and effective legal assistance. "Therefore, for the reasons stated, the defense requests the total annulment of the SAM (Special Administrative Measures), the release of Mr. Quintero from confinemen…

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Caro Quintero denounced extreme conditions in the prison where he says he is treated as a terrorist. Los Angeles Press Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara Cartel and one of the best known figures of drug trafficking in Mexico, has broken the silence since his extradition to the United States, publicly denouncing the conditions in which he is being held in a federal maximum security prison in Brooklyn, New York. According to a letter…

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The lawyers of Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug trafficker imprisoned in the United States, accused of the murder of a DEA agent 40 years ago, asked district judge Friederick Block this Friday to lift the isolation measures. Since his arrest in February “the only contact with his family in Mexico was one or two short telephone calls monitored” and “not even an indirect contact with his family is allowed, since his defense is forbidden to bro…

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The lawyers of Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican drug trafficker imprisoned in the United States, accused of the murder of a DEA agent 40 years ago, asked District Judge Friederick Block this Friday to lift the isolation measures. Since his arrest in February “the only contact with his family in Mexico was one or two short telephone calls monitored” and “not even an indirect contact with his family is allowed, since his defense is forbidden to broad…

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