and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back.
A nearby weather station recorded the wind chill that morning at -36 Fahrenheit (-38 Celsius).Seven other members of their group survived the foot crossing, but only two made it to Shand’s van, which was stuck in the snow on the Minnesota side. One woman who survived had to be flown to a hospital with severe frostbite and hypothermia. Another survivor testified he had never seen snow before arriving in Canada.
Kirkpatrick told reporters after Wednesday’s hearing that as a lifelong Minnesotan, she would not have gone out in that weather. “But the defendants sent into that weather 11 migrants — Indian nationals who were not dressed appropriately, were ill-prepared for the weather they faced that night,” she said.Kirkpatrick pointed out that the family who died had walked for hours trying to find Shand, who had been sent by Patel.“These defendants knew it was cold. In fact, they knew it was life-threatening cold,” she said. “They didn’t care. What they cared about was money, and their callous indifference to the value of human life cost a family of four their lives.”
Patel’s attorney, Leinenweber, said his client will appeal but declined to speculate on what grounds.“He had kind of resigned himself to the fact that the sentence would be longer than he had hoped,” the attorney said. “And he’s not happy with it. But he does wish to appeal and take advantage of his rights.”
Shand’s attorney, federal defender Aaron Morrison, did not talk to reporters afterward.
Morrison acknowledged in a presentencing filing that Shand has “a level of culpability” but argued that his role was limited — that he was just a taxi driver who needed money to support his wife and six children.“Será un indicador para ver qué tanto control y tanta fuerza tiene la presidenta en el interior del partido y también qué tanto peso e influencia tienen en los estados”, apuntó el politólogo y consultor político Javier Rosiles Salas.
que llegan avalados por el oficialismo —que salieron— representan más del doble que los respaldados por sus críticos, esto es, por el mismo entorno judicial. Las candidaturas se definieron a través de tres comités, uno del Poder Judicial, otro del Ejecutivo y un tercero del Legislativo.
Los listados de los dos últimos comités estuvieron integrados por personas afines al partido gobernante Morena que dominaron la selección de la mayoría de los aspirantes, afirmó el profesor de Ciencias Políticas y Derecho del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, el doctor Julio Ríos Figueroa.Eso llevó a que entre los perfiles que irán en las papeletas figuren jueces y abogados que han mostrado cercanía con anterioridad al partido de gobierno Morena, como María Estela Ríos, que fue consejera jurídica del ex Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador; o Paulina García Villegas, hija de la diputada oficialista Olga Sánchez Cordero así como exlegislador local de Morena Eduardo Santillán Pérez. Los tres aspiran a ministros de la Suprema Corte.