{"id":35438,"date":"2019-02-12T21:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T21:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35438"},"modified":"2019-02-12T21:15:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T21:15:59","slug":"can-el-chapo-face-a-murder-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35438","title":{"rendered":"Can El Chapo face a murder rap?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman has been convicted of 10 drug-related felonies. The man is heading for a life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>I have this thought I want to share.<\/p>\n<p>The miserable drug lord is one of the world&#8217;s most notorious criminals, responsible for untold misery and mayhem. He&#8217;ll likely never breath freely ever again.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m wondering: Do U.S. federal statutes allow for a trial and potential <em>conviction<\/em> on murder charges if it can be proven that anyone who consumed drugs provided by El Chapo&#8217;s network died from that consumption? Can there be a case made that El Chapo&#8217;s drug-running activity contributed directly to anyone&#8217;s death and for that can he stand trial on murder charges?<\/p>\n<p>Just wondering out loud, man.<\/p>\n<p>Well, goodbye El Chapo. Here&#8217;s to a life in hell on Earth and to an eternity in the <em>actual<\/em> hell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BBmkqOW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35439\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BBmkqOW-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BBmkqOW-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BBmkqOW-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BBmkqOW.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman has been convicted of 10 drug-related felonies. The man is heading for a life in prison. I have this thought I want to share. The miserable drug lord is one of the world&#8217;s most notorious criminals, responsible for untold misery and mayhem. He&#8217;ll likely never breath freely ever again. But I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can El Chapo face a murder rap?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8382,1540,2497,5174],"class_list":["post-35438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-drug-lords","tag-el-chapo","tag-joaquin-guzman","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35440,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35438\/revisions\/35440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}