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To: carranza2 who wrote (207401)	9/8/2024 7:21:07 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218111

Was Karen Read’s interview a good idea? Legal expert weighs in September 6, 2024 11:17 pm PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — ABC 6 News Legal Analyst Ken Schreiber wants to remind people that anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law, especially when they say it on a platform as big as 20/20. However, he said that the Karen Read interview may have been a smart legal move by her defense team, as Read gave her first extensive comments since the jury deadlocked in her initial trial. “I had felt like I had alcohol, I felt that I had a buzz, but I did not feel that it was unsafe for me to be operating my vehicle,” she said. Schreiber, of ‘Schreiber and Schreiber’ in Cranston, said Read’s decision to interview on national television was unusual. “In many cases like this, national cases, you have the lawyers speak for you, so it is very unusual,” he said. “Especially when you say it in a public forum like this.” Despite the risk, the lawyer added that he’s sure Read’s high-powered team made the necessary preparations. “I would be surprised if anything she said would incriminate her, because I think she read anything she said by her attorney before she said it,” Schreiber said. “I would hope so.” He said the interview could be a sign of a defense on the offensive “Her lawyer is almost saying to the district attorney, ‘You know what, try it again if you want, we’re gonna get the same decision if not a better one the second time,'” Schreiber said. “It’s a fascinating defense, and if any of it is true, that doesn’t speak well, which is that it’s a coverup by the police department.” He also thinks Read’s team may have the edge with a second trial on deck. “It’s always good when you get a preview, so you’ve got everybody under oath, you know that each and every witness that testified at the first trial,” Schreiber said. “You may not have known what exactly he or she was going to say before they said it, now you know.” He added that he thinks that the second verdict may be very similar to the first one. A key difference is that one of the state’s key witnesses, Trooper Michael Proctor, was suspended without pay in July after Massachusetts State Police pulled him off the job following the first trial. Categories: Massachusetts, News

To: carranza2 who wrote (207401)	10/21/2024 10:39:23 PM
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Bombshell claim by Mexico prosecutors about alleged murder coverup backs up story of cartel boss held in U.S. Updated on: October 21, 2024 / 12:38 PM EDT / CBS/AP Police, prosecutors and forensic examiners in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa all conspired to cover up the killing of an opponent of the ruling-party state governor, using a blood-stained truck found at the crime scene, federal prosecutors said Sunday. The bombshell statement by federal prosecutors backs up the version of imprisoned drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. Zambada claims he was forced aboard an airplane on July 25 by another drug capo who flew them both to the United States and turned them in to U.S. authorities. Zambada said in a letter in August that Héctor Cuén, an opponent of ruling-party Gov. Ruben Rocha, was murdered on July 25 at the same time and the same ranch where Zambada was kidnapped. Federal prosecutors revealed Sunday that Cuén's blood was indeed found at the ranch. Gov. Rocha has not responded publicly to Sunday's statement by prosecutors, but he has said in the past that Cuén was killed by gunmen in a random botched robbery at a gasoline station miles away later that day, and Sinaloa state prosecutors showed security camera footage of the alleged attack. But federal prosecutors quickly noted something was wrong with that video: post-mortem records showed Cuén's body had four gunshot wounds, while only one gunshot can be heard on the security camera footage, and gas station employees said they didn't hear any. Cuén's bullet-ridden body could not help solve the riddle, because Sinaloa officials violated all murder investigation rules by allowing the body to be cremated almost immediately. The gasoline station footage was later proved to be a falsification, but something about the white pickup truck seen in the footage was real: it had the blood of one of Zambada's trusted bodyguards in the cargo bed. In this courtroom sketch, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 13, 2024. Elizabeth Williams / APThat implied that Sinaloa state police, crime scene investigators and prosecutors either found the bodyguard's corpse in the truck and got rid of the body, or at very least took the blood-stained vehicle from a crime scene to fake a gunpoint robbery at the gas station. "All of the above confirms the police and prosecution investigation that has confirmed the presumed administrative and criminal responsibilities of Sinaloa police, detectives, forensic examiners and state prosecutors who have been exhaustively investigated regarding their participation in the death of Héctor (Cuén)" the federal Attorney General's Office said in a statement Sunday. The news appears to complicate further the position of Gov. Rocha, who belongs to President Claudia Sheinbaum's ruling Morena Party. Sheinbaum has strongly backed Rocha so far. But Rocha has done little or nothing to quell the bloody fighting that broke out between the rival factions of the two Sinaloa drug cartel capos that broke out after July 25. Instead, Rocha has sought to downplay the gunbattles, killings, kidnappings and cartel roadblocks that have sprung around the state capital, Culiacan. On Thursday, hours before gunmen opened fire on the offices of a local newspaper, Gov. Rocha said "there is nothing to worry about" and "everything is under control." Rocha - a close associate of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who left office Sept. 30 - has been implicated in the events of July 25 from the start, though he denies it. Zambada has said that Joaquín Guzmán López - a leader of a rival cartel faction who he nonetheless trusted - had invited him to the meeting to help iron out the fierce political rivalry between Gov. Rocha and Cuén, who were feuding. Zambada was famous for eluding capture for decades because of his incredibly tight, loyal and sophisticated personal security apparatus. But he said that on July 25, he left most of his security team behind and entered with only two bodyguards because he expected both Cuén and Gov. Rocha to be present. The two bodyguards have not been heard from since. The fact that Zambada would knowingly leave all his security behind to meet with the politicians suggests he viewed such a meeting as credible and feasible. The same goes for the idea that Zambada, as the leader of the oldest wing of the Sinaloa cartel, could act as an arbiter in the state's political disputes. Rocha has denied he knew of or attended the meeting where Zambada was abducted, claiming he had borrowed a businessman's private jet to fly to California that day. But while a flight record of that plane exists, Rocha has never shown the immigration documents he would have filed to enter the United States, leading to doubts that he was aboard the plane. Zambada pleaded not guilty last month in a U.S. drug trafficking case that accuses him of engaging in murder plots and ordering torture. The perceived betrayal of Zambada has led to fierce fighting between his followers, known as "Mayitos," and the followers of Guzmán López, who - as one of the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Gúzman - was a co-leader of the faction known as the "Chapitos." According to an indictment released by the U.S. Justice Department last year, the "Chapitos" and their cartel associates used corkscrews, electrocution and hot chiles to torture their rivals while some of their victims were "fed dead or alive to tigers." El Chapo's sons were among 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in a massive fentanyl-trafficking investigation announced in April 2023. El Chapo is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado after being convicted in 2019 on charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons-related offenses. More from CBS News