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Dealing with drugs, beyond El Chapo

TWO BRAZEN PRISON ESCAPES IS A LOT FOR A jury to look past. But in closing arguments at the federal trial of the world’s most famous accused drug lord, his lawyer pleaded with jurors to do just that. Look past the notorious nickname and headline-grabbing revelations of the trial, he implored in a voice first booming then softening, and see the man Joaquín Guzmán rather than “the myth of El Chapo.”

But by the time jurors began deliberations on Feb. 4, government prosecutors had put

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