A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s bid for a new trial, finding that misconduct by jurors during the Mexican crime lord’s drug trafficking case was not a reason to overturn their guilty verdict.

Guzman sought a new trial in March after Vice News published an interview of one of the jurors, who said that multiple jurors ignored U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan’s instructions not to read or talk about the case during the 11-week trial in Brooklyn federal court.

According to the Feb. 20 Vice article, the jurors’ misconduct included reading and discussing articles about allegations that Guzman drugged and raped girls as young as 13 years old, accusations that Guzman’s lawyers have denied. Those articles were published just two days before jurors began deliberating.

Cogan wrote Wednesday that there was no reason to think those articles swayed the jury. Read more

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A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s bid for a new trial, finding that misconduct by jurors during the Mexican crime lord’s drug trafficking case was not a reason to overturn their guilty verdict.

Guzman sought a new trial in March after Vice News published an interview of one of the jurors, who said that multiple jurors ignored U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan’s instructions not to read or talk about the case during the 11-week trial in Brooklyn federal court.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s bid for a new trial, finding that misconduct by jurors during the Mexican crime lord’s drug trafficking case was not a reason to overturn their guilty verdict.

Guzman sought a new trial in March after Vice News published an interview of one of the jurors, who said that multiple jurors ignored U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan’s instructions not to read or talk about the case during the 11-week trial in Brooklyn federal court.