MIAMI (CN) — A Spanish national accused of running an international drug trafficking ring asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to overturn money laundering convictions that netted him 150 years in prison.
“The 150-year sentence is so horribly disparate, because it was never meant to be a guideline range for a country in which it has a completely different understanding of drug crimes, Spain,” Richard Klugh Jr., representing Alvaro Lopez Tardon, told the three-judge panel. “So the Sentencing Commission, its goal since the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 was to harmonize United States treatment of United States crimes. It was never meant to reach into Spain and persecute somebody for the rest of his life.”
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