NEW YORK, USA.-For Thursday, October 27, the hearing against the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was postponed.
And it is that in the last hours the United States Attorney’s Office and the former president’s own defense, asked Judge Kevin Castel, to change the date of the next hearing and that of the jury trial.
Castel approved the postponement and rescheduled the hearing for October 27 at 2:00 pm (New York time).
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Similarly, the letter details that “the trial date is moved from January 17, 2023 to April 24, 2023.”
“The term until April 24, 2023 is excluded so that the parties can carry out the activities described in the Government’s letter of September 19, 2022 and otherwise prepare for the trial,” concludes the letter signed by Judge Castel .
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On September 13, the United States Attorney’s Office requested the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York to declare a series of pieces of evidence, including leaks and wiretaps, to be presented during the trial for drug trafficking against former President Hernández. .
“The government respectfully submits this letter requesting that the Court issue an Order of Protection, pursuant to Rule 16(d)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, determining that the government need not present to the defendant a request to intercept electronic communications pursuant to Title III of the United States Code (the “Wiretap Request”),” the prosecutors’ brief states.
It indicates that “the Wiretap application resulted in the legal interception of June 2016 electronic communications by persons other than the accused, in connection with an ongoing sensitive investigation, regarding what appears to be a photograph of a kilogram of cocaine with a stamp with the letters “TH”, that is, the initials of “Tony” Hernández”, brother of the accused and co-defendant in this case.”
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For the prosecutors of the United States, the interceptions, including the photograph of the kilogram with the initials of “Tony” of Hernandez, are relevant in this case, in the sense that it intends to show that “the defendant supported and protected the drug trafficking activities of ” Tony “Hernandez, even during the time period in this he was manufacturing cocaine, like the kilo shown in the intercepted photograph, in a drug lab.”
Prosecutors also requested that all of these wiretaps be admitted.