Brooklyn Bridge might shut down to shuttle 'El Chapo' to trial today

Safiel · 2018-11-05T16:20:44.648Z

Trial for alleged drug kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzman begins under tight security...

Jury selection opened Monday in New York City in the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, whose electrifying escape from a Mexican prison shocked the world.

The trial of El Chapo began today with the start of jury selection. The Brooklyn Bridge was shut down in order to securely bring El Chapo from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Manhattan to the Eastern District of New York Courthouse in Brooklyn. It will be shut down again when he returns to jail this evening.

Won’t that be a ******* nightmare for New Yorkers. The Brooklyn Bridge could well be shut down twice a day, in rush hour no less, for the next four months, the expected length of this trial.

Hopefully they find a better way to do this and quick.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-11-05T16:42:48.536Z

Man, really shows how powerful and dangerous drug lords and their armies are.

Safiel · 2018-11-05T16:46:31.192Z

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Man, really shows how powerful and dangerous drug lords and their armies are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Wood_Jr.

And they probably have memories of the assassination of United States District Judge John H. Wood Jr. on orders of the drug cartel.

Definitely not people to be trifled with.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-11-05T16:47:59.081Z

Safiel:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Man, really shows how powerful and dangerous drug lords and their armies are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Wood_Jr.

And they probably have memories of the assassination of United States District Judge John H. Wood Jr. on orders of the drug cartel.

Definitely not people to be trifled with.

Yeah. I hate those criminals.

Tilly_jow · 2018-11-05T18:29:52.446Z

Remember how scared ■■■■■■■■ NY’ers got when they said the Guantanamo detainees were going to tried there for 9/11.

hwyflier · 2018-11-05T22:59:29.372Z

No. I remember the midwest being very afraid about it though.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-11-06T00:04:34.605Z

hwyflier:

No. I remember the midwest being very afraid about it though.

Why?..

hwyflier · 2018-11-06T00:29:04.250Z

Republican media.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-11-06T01:11:58.633Z

hwyflier:

Republican media.

oh

that’s funny

Safiel · 2018-11-06T03:15:41.247Z

New York Post – 5 Nov 18

El Chapo will be shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge every week during trial

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will be moved twice a week during his long-awaited drug trafficking trial in Brooklyn — out of concerns that he could be assassinated, a high-ranking police so…

It looks now like the Brooklyn Bridge will only be shut down twice a week, rather than twice a day.

El Chapo will be held in a basement cell under the Eastern District of New York Courthouse in Brooklyn during the trial week. Each Friday evening, he will be taken back to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Manhattan, then back to the courthouse on each Monday morning.

If I lived in Brooklyn, I would avoid the Eastern District of New York courthouse at all costs, it will be bristling with Deputy United States Marshals.

Casper_the_ghost · 2018-11-07T00:38:05.067Z

Woody Harrelson’s dad killed him correct?

Safiel · 2018-11-07T00:50:27.091Z

Casper_the_ghost:

Woody Harrelson’s dad killed him correct?

You are correct.

mot1man · 2018-11-07T01:28:17.526Z

So why not hold the trial remotely, from the security of the detention center, using CCTV?

No need to inconvenience NY’rs over that piece of ■■■■■

Safiel · 2018-11-07T01:34:19.113Z

mot1man:

So why not hold the trial remotely, from the security of the detention center, using CCTV?

No need to inconvenience NY’rs over that piece of ■■■■■

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure require felony defendants to be physically present in the courtroom during all stages of trial unless they waive that right. Since El Chapo has not done so, he MUST be brought to court for trial.