"Güero" Palma Claims AMLO's Interference In The Court Ruling And His Recapture

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Lawyers for Jesús Héctor Palma Salazar, known as "El Güero Palma," filed an amparo lawsuit on behalf of his client in federal courts in Jalisco to claim the alleged interference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the revocation of his acquittal and the re-apprehension order against him.

Judicial sources informed ZETA that the brief - admitted to a Unitary Court - also identifies among the responsible authorities Arturo Zaldivar Lelo de la Rea, in his dual function as president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the Council of the Federal Judiciary.

"I demand the verbal or written order, by means of which they order the Head of the Fourth Unitary Court of the Third Circuit, to replace the procedure in Criminal Court 31/2021 and order the re-arrest of the subscriber," highlights the act of which the alleged drug trafficker aggrieved through his representatives.

Among the evidence presented about his saying, Palma Salazar offers "public and notorious information that works on the Internet, regarding the intervention of the President of the Republic in this matter, from April 30 of this year, when my release was decreed initially."

The demand for legal protection of "El Güero" Palma also goes against acts of the Fourth Unitary Court of the Third Circuit, who revoked the acquittal issued in his favor; and against the Second District Judge of Federal Criminal Procedures in Jalisco, who will have to replace the procedure.

Mention is also made of the Regional Head of the Administrative Unit that is part of the organization of the Federal Ministerial Police and the director of the Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation number 1 Altiplano, where he is deprived of his liberty for the crime of organized crime.

In the case of the acting Secretary of District Judge of the Second District Court of Federal Criminal Procedures, he claims the agreement to order the search and location of protected witnesses or collaborators Javier Burgueño Urías, with code name "César", as well as Marcelo Peña García, with code name "Julio".

After the application for legal protection promoted by Jesús Héctor Palma was admitted and the prior and justified reports of the act claimed were requested from the responsible authorities, the judge of guarantees ordered the judge in case 6/2018 "to suspend the procedure once the investigation is closed and until he is notified of the final decision that is issued in this trial."

It was also agreed to give the legal intervention that corresponds to the Agent of the Public Ministry of the Federation attached to the legal protection area of the court that hears the constitutional protection trial.

The constitutional hearing in which the judicial dispute could be resolved is dated September 10, which could be deferred as usually happens in these cases.

Zeta Tijuana