http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/29/arizona-mother-fights-allegations-drug-smuggling-from-mexico/
The husband of an Arizona mother of seven accused of trying to sneak 12 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. says his wife is no drug smuggler.
Yanira Maldonado, 42, and her husband Gary said they were returning from the funeral of her aunt last Wednesday when the passenger bus they were on was stopped at a Mexican military checkpoint about 90 miles from the U.S. border. Authorities ordered everyone off, searched the bus and then claimed to have found the marijuana under her seat. Yanira Maldonado, a devout Mormon, has been in custody ever since, and is now being held in a jail in Nogales pending her next court appearance.
"It’s looking promising, like our case is solid and theirs looks weak.”
- Gary Maldonado, husband of woman accused of pot smuggling
“We just had our witnesses testify, I did my declaration,” Gary Maldonado, her husband, told MyFoxPhoenix.com by phone. “Yanira did hers yesterday. It’s looking promising, like our case is solid and theirs looks weak.”
Gary Maldonado, who said authorities initially demanded a $5,000 bribe, said the Mexican legal system is a far cry from the judicial process in the U.S.
“What they do is they gather up all the testimonies and then the judge will have her secretary-lawyer type all the stuff us and then she’ll give a recommendation of what she thinks to the judge,” he said. “The judge will decide the case from reading all the evidence, who weighs more in evidence.”
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