NEW YORK.
the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York received yesterday the document by which the defense of former deputy Juan Antonio Hernández filed an appeal before this court.
Hernandez, sentenced to life imprisonment plus 30 years for drug-related charges on March 30, insists on his innocence, on the grounds of which he filed the said appeal.
According to the document entered in the electronic file of the case, to which he has had access THE PRESS, The appeal procedure began the day after the sentence, that is, on March 31. The document was sent to the attention of Judge Kevin Castel, who has been assigned to the case from the beginning and was the one who handed down the sentence against Hernandez.
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Besides For U.S. justice, Tony Hernandez “played a leading role in a violent state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy.” He was fined $ 138,500,000. |
The document also states that the appeal not only includes the sentence handed down last week, but also the conviction that found Tony guilty in October 2019.
The appeal was filed by attorney Peter Brill, who, for the purposes of this appeal, remains Tony’s legal representative, even though he had expressed his dissatisfaction with the lawyer’s practice. so that a possible cessation of its functions like legal representative of the Honduran was presumed.
The process continues, the Court will give appeal to the appeal, so Tony’s case will pass from the hands of the court of first instance to those of the court of appeals, which will presumably be the Court Federal Appeals of the Second Circuit, which is the court in the jurisdiction fall cases that originate in the federal courts of the state of New York (which includes the Southern District).
This step is the most recent given in the case of Tony Hernandez, Since his arrest in Miami, Florida, in late November 2018. Eleven months after his arrest, President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s brother was subjected to a two-week trial in which he be found guilty of drug trafficking, possession and use of weapons and destructive devices and giving false statements to federal officials in October 2019. One year and five months after his conviction, Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison, after of which it initiated the processing of the appeal.