Bruce Green was quoted in a New York Times article about the possibility that El Chapo will take the stand in his drug trial.
The drug kingpin might want a shot at telling his own story in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. It would be yet another startling development in a trial that has already delivered many sensational moments.
Mr. Lichtman has told reporters it is only a “possibility” that Mr. Guzmán might testify.
“It’s his absolute right to testify or not to testify,” another of his attorneys, A. Eduardo Balarezo, said in an interview.
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“He may feel that it’s a foregone conclusion that he will be convicted,” said Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham Law School who specializes in legal ethics and criminal procedure. “And the testimony that he wants to give may not be to get the jury to acquit him but rather to establish his place in history and to explain himself to the world.”