Mexican drug kingpin ‘el chapo’ is sentenced to life plus 30 years in u. S. Prison
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UPDATED AT 12 P.M. ET A federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., has sentenced drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to a term of life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 30 years for
his role in leading Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. A life sentence was mandatory; U.S. prosecutors had asked that three decades be added onto Guzman’s punishment. One of the only suspenseful
questions that remained Wednesday was whether Guzmán, who did not speak during his long trial, would speak in court in what’s expected to be his last public appearance before heading to the
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