Judge Brian Cogan denied the requests of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who asked in five letters that his sentence be canceled and sent to Mexico, even accusing Cogan of irregularities in the process.

“Senseless” was how Judge Cogan described the statements of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years in prison, which he is serving in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

The judge made a count that in the last two weeks, “El Chapo” sent letters to the Eastern District Court of New York, requesting various benefits, among them a “freedom” order ration”, “request for new trial”, “extradition order for return to his country” and “request for documents how the jury determined the trial verdict, as well as “wrongful conviction”.

“Some of these documents don't make sense and none of them have legal merit. All are properly denied,” Cogan determined.

The letters were sent by “El Chapo” since mid-April and three of them were published by the court this Monday. All are written in English, with notable syntax and spelling errors that even complicate their translation into Spanish.

“My name is Joaquín Guzmán from the country of Mexico who fights for my protection policy to obtain my release in relation to the erroneous verdict eo of the eastern courts (sic)”, says one of the letters. “I am writing on my representation that the courts violated my evidence policy.”

In another decision by Judge Cogan, on January 16 of this year, he dismissed another petition about the intervention of an alleged representative of Guzmán Loera.

James Sabatino claimed to be the legal representative of “El Chapo”, who made “the notification to the court as a motion to intervene as a person outside the process”. Judge Cogan rejected it.

In 2022, the Second Appeals Court based in New York confirmed Guzmán Loera's sentence. The judges considered that the three months trial were conducted with “diligence and fairness” by Judge Cogan.