translated from Spanish: Judge denies the possibility of embrace your spouse

to the Chapo New York judge presiding over the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, considered the greater hood of the world, denied Thursday his request to greet and hug to spouse, next Tuesday When you begin your trial.
Judge Brian Cogan said that although he personally sympathizes with the request of Guzmán, the Sheriff of the Court argued that access the application unnecessarily “all security procedures that have been implemented” around the accused.
Such restrictions, said Cogan, “conform to the legitimate objectives of the Government to prevent the defendant to coordinate an escape from prison or ordering attacks individuals who may be cooperating with the Government”.
The judge said that these concerns are especially valid at the start of the trial, when the possibility of a sentence increases the motivation to plan an escape or to threaten witnesses.
Cogan decision happens after last Tuesday, Guzman lawyers entered a motion to the Court to allow the Chapo to embrace his wife, Emma Coronel, at the beginning of the initial statements of the trial, scheduled for Tuesday, November 13.
Lawyers had argued that the judge should consider the request given that Guzman has maintained an “exemplary conduct” despite the harsh conditions of his detention isolation.
Cogan pointed out that the Sheriff noted that access request would entail a differential treatment with regard to other prisoners detained under the high security regime. Specifically, in addition, sheriffs had forbidden that Guzman to communicate or have any physical contact with their spouse.
The Chapo”, charged with trafficking United States 155 tons of cocaine over a quarter-century and protagonist of two spectacular leaks of Mexican prisons, it was extradited nearly two years ago and could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
From 2016 justice not permitted to receive visits from their spouse Emma Coronel, for 29 years, who has attended almost all of their audience in the Court. Nor let you talk to her by phone.
The ex-Chief of the Sinaloa cartel, of 61 years, and who was the most wanted by the United States for years, only man is visited by his lawyers in prison in Manhattan where is isolated 23 hours a day, as well as her twin daughters for seven years , but all through a glass partition.
Mariel Colón Miró, lawyer of the Mexican hood, wrote the request to judge Brian Cogan: “El Chapo” you want to give to your spouse “a brief, momentary greeting that includes perhaps a hug on November 13, before the start of opening arguments” of the Prosecutor’s office and the Defense.
With information from Notimex 

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