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The sense of Honduran ex-Member of Parliament Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, scheduled for tomorrow, January 27, may be postponed for the eighth time as the defense of the President of Honduras’ brother Judge Kevin Castel a new postponement.
In a letter to Judge Castel, attorney Peter E. Brill next petitioned for it postponement of punishment He explains, “The PSR translation and pre-judgment presentation are nearing completion. I will have to pick up the translations and then meet my client to discuss them and then add each point from that discussion into our judgment presentation. to take.”
In this sense it is the defense of Tony Hernandez, guilty of drug trafficking, claims that at this point he still cannot agree to “a remote conviction proceeding on behalf of Mr. Hernández Alvarado.”
He Brill lawyer He asked Judge Kevin Castel to personally set a date for the conviction after the court reopened for such phenomena. It should be remembered that because of the pandemic, they are being done remotely.
In this sense: “I ask the Court to personally fix a date of conviction after the cut Reopen such gigs, ”the letter states.
Although Judge Kevin Castel has not yet responded to the request for a postponement, journalist Emily Palmer (The New York Times) wrote on Twitter yesterday: “I just confirmed that Tony Hernández’s sentence (scheduled for Wednesday) has once again been postponed.”
Tony Hernández’s sentencing was originally scheduled for January 17, 2020, but has been postponed throughout the year.
Juan Antonio Hernández, 42, is the brother of the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, and was a deputy in the Honduran Congress between 2014 and 2018.
“Tony” Hernández was arrested November 23 at the Miami airport on charges of trafficking cocaine to the US, possession of weapons and lying to US authorities, and was found guilty in October 2019.