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U.S. federal judge John A. Kronstadt orderedthe opening of the case and the holding of a new trial in the case of Raul López-Alvarez, convicted of murdering a
U.S. federal judge John A. Kronstadt orderedthe opening of the case and the holding of a new trial in the case of Raul López-Alvarez, convicted of murdering a narcotics agent in 1985 Enrique “Kiki” Camarena according to court documents that the EFE news agency had access to this Wednesday.
In the last of these texts put forward by the newspaper Millennium and dated March 23, Kronstadt in detail violations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and decided to drop the four charges against López-Alvarez, who will remain in jail without bail until a new trial.
This must start within 180 days of March 23rd. but, the judge argued, “additional time is likely to be needed to find witnesses and evidence” as the defendant’s last trial took place over 34 years ago.
Similarly, E. Martin Estrada, Attorney for the Central District of California, filed a status report last week in which officially announced that he would require a new trial on four charges against the defendant.
Lopez-Alvarez is a former judicial police officer from Guadalajara, Jalisco, who was arrested on October 26, 1987 in Los Angeles (California, USA) and sentenced to 249 years in prison for aiding, abetting and participating in the kidnapping and murder of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who was a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent.
However, last year the defendant admitted that the testimony given to Abel Reynoso and José Reyes Garcia, another DEA agent and the witness who accused him, was lies and the result of a boastful attitude, but that he did not kidnap or kill Camarena.
In addition, since 2019 he has claimed that The FBI committed a number of violations during the process leading to his imprisonment, and Judge Kronstadt partly agreed with him in another court document dated 23 February.
And the fact is, Lopez-Alvarez’s conviction was based on the testimony of Michael Malone, the agent in charge of the FBI’s fiber lab, which he said he found the hair in the house located in Guadalajara where “Kiki” was killed.
It was impossible to show that these were the works of Lopez-Alvarez.but it was concluded that he was one of the culprits after the court heard the convict’s alleged false testimony in his conversation with Reynoso and Reyes Garcia.
“Malone’s testimony significantly supported the conclusion that Lopez-Alvarez Reynoso and Reyes Garcia’s statements were true. and undermined the defense (Lopez-Alvarez),” Kronstadt said on February 23, 2023.
In addition, in the said court document, the magistrate argued that in Reynoso’s application There was “never” explicit talk of López-Alvarez kidnapping Camarena.but that he was “with those who participated” in the crime.
Enrique “Kiki Camarena” was a Mexican-American who worked as an undercover agent for the DEA and he was killed at the age of 38 after nearly five years of following the biggest marijuana and cocaine traffickers in Mexico.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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