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US court dismisses appeal from former Honduran president Hernandez
The court said Hernandez’s case was moot after Trump’s pardon and vacated the lower court judgment, leaving his 45-year sentence undone.
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US federal court dismisses appeal from former Honduras president
In light of President Donald Trump’s pardon, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed an appeal from former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, and vacated a previous judgement against him on Wednesday. The court found that the pardon rendered the appeal of the conviction moot, and dismissed it. For the same reason, the court vacated his conviction and remanded the case to the lower court with orders to dismiss. Hernande…
By Sol Amaya and Juan Carlos López, CNN en Español. The United States Justice Department on Wednesday ordered the annulment of the drug trafficking conviction and sentence against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been pardoned by President Donald Trump in December. Hernández celebrated the decision on his social media accounts. “The Court of Appeals annuls the sentence and conviction, orders Judge Kevin Castel to dismiss…
Juan Orlando Hernández's drug-trafficking sentence, former president of Honduras, was overturned in an appeals court in the United States.Juan Orlando Hernández had been sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2024 for his alleged links with Mexican drug cartels and involvement in entering drugs into the United States.The former president of Honduras considers himself a victim of a “vengeance” of those hoods he extradited, as many of them testified a…
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández said on Wednesday, April 8, that the U.S. justice system eliminated his conviction and sentence for drug trafficking, after the U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned him on December 1, 2025, which allowed him to avoid a 45-year prison sentence. “Today the U.S. justice system, today the U.S. Courts give me the reason. The sentence and sentence are removed, but it is also ordered that the accusation …
Honduran ex-mandator Juan Orlando Hernández said Wednesday that the U.S. Justice has "annuated" his conviction and sentence, after being tried by a New York court to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking offences, receiving a pardon from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, last December.He has done so with the publication of a U.S. Court of Appeals decision for the Second Circuit, in New York, which orders "that the district cour…
US court dismisses appeal from former Honduran president Hernandez
A US court on April 8 dismissed an appeal by former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez and ordered a prior judgment to be vacated, a court document showed, following his pardon by US President Donald Trump in December.
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