| After Months in
Colombia Jail Amid COVID US
Asked 60 Month Term But Judge
Gives 78
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 18 – A man extradited
from Colombia on drug
trafficking charged he pled
guilty to was up for
sentencing by U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Valerie E. Caproni on March
18, 2024.
Inner City
Press was there, the only
civilian in the
courtroom.
The US
Attorney's Office had asked
for a below Guidelines
sentence of 60 months, citing
the time the defendant spent
in prison in Colombia awaiting
extradition during the height
of the COVID-19
pandemic.
The
defendant when he spoke cried,
how he had lost time with his
family.
Judge
Caproni noted the tears, and
the prison, but said that he
had not fully accepted
responsibility, and had
downplayed his role. Instead
of the requested sixty months,
she sentenced Franck Hernan
Alvarez Espinal to 78 months.
He
indicated that he wanted to
say something after, but
ultimately did not.
The case is US v.
Salazar-Lotero, et al.,
19-cr-661 (Caproni)
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