With One Big Caveat, El Chapo Willing to Plead Guilty if Extradited from Mexico to US Daily News
go to original February 10, 2016

Mexican druglord El Chapo under 24-hour ring of steel in bid to prevent another prison escape. (Mirror Online)

Recently recaptured drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is willing to plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges filed against him in the US - under one condition - he doesn’t want to go to a “high-security prison,” José Refugio Rodríguez, one of Guzmán’s lawyers, told Univision last week.

Guzmán “suggested to me the possible option of reaching an agreement with the United States government to consent to the extradition,” Rodríguez told Peniley Ramírez in an exclusive interview with Univision — his first time on camera in 36 years as a litigator.

Rodríguez said the jailed Sinaloa cartel chief “is willing to ‘accept his culpability for the charges [that] the United States seeks.”

“[We would ask for] favorable conditions in order to face legal proceedings in the United States … Like? That he doesn’t arrive at a maximum-security prison … and [that he gets there] after the penalty is negotiated,” Rodríguez told Univision.

Elaborating on the conditions under which Guzmán would make this plea, Rodríguez told Univision that in order for Guzmán to “renounce [his] right to a defense in Mexico,” he would ask for the following: that he not be “held in a maximum-security prison where he would not have contact with other inmates or where he would not see the light of the sun for more than an hour a day.”

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