NewsWhore
09-02-2008, 07:40 PM
The highly anticipated trial of former Dominican military captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, versus the US for their participation in a DR-based drug-trafficking organization is scheduled to be heard by Judge Kimba Woods today at the New York's Southern District Court. Paulino Castillo was extradited after being arrested on 18 December with a shipment of 1,387 kilos of cocaine in what was deemed the largest drug bust in Dominican history. Twenty-one other people have been arrested in relation to the case, with six accomplices reaching plea bargains with the state in exchange for their testimony.
District attorney John O'Donnell expressed his concern last week that the Dominican justice system and the government had not cooperated sufficiently to resolve this case, and he said that the Federal Court was not able to secure the recordings made of the accused to be used as part of the evidence, as reported on 26 August in Diario Libre.
For background on the case, see http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/nyc112105.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirino_Paulino
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District attorney John O'Donnell expressed his concern last week that the Dominican justice system and the government had not cooperated sufficiently to resolve this case, and he said that the Federal Court was not able to secure the recordings made of the accused to be used as part of the evidence, as reported on 26 August in Diario Libre.
For background on the case, see http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/nyc112105.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirino_Paulino
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)