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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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No compassionate release for Sinaloa

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois declined the compassionate release requested by a former Sinaloa cartel operative who was sentenced in October 2023. He says that he was subject to physical abuse in Mexican custody before he was extradited to the U.S., but this was the basis for a sentence reduction he already won, so it cannot also secure him a compassionate release from the court.

Read the ruling here.

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