Mistrial for One Defendant in Immigration Case
Nov. 13, 2019, 5:13 p.m. ·
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A federal judge has declared a mistrial for one of three defendants in a case connected to last year’s immigration raids in and around O’Neill, Nebraska.
The three defendants are all charged with having conspired with Juan Pablo Sanchez Delgado, who ran a staffing company that supplied people who were in the country illegally to work at ag-related businesses.
But U.S. District Judge John Gerrard ruled Wednesday that testimony related to two of the defendants had been prejudicial toward the third.
Those two defendants are Mayra Jimenez, who worked at a tomato plant for which Sanchez Delgado supplied workers, and John Glidden, who supervised hog operations that also used workers from Sanchez Delgado’s company.
The defendant who got the mistrial, John Good, owned the house where Sanchez Delgado lived, and owned the liquor license for a restaurant he ran. But he was not apparently connected to the staffing business, and Gerrard said testimony about that had “spilled over” onto Good.
Gerrard also threw out a money laundering charge against Good. Good could still be retried separately from the other two defendants. His lawyer, Dave Domina, said that’ll be up to the U.S. Attorney’s office. A representative of that office could not be reached for comment.
The trial of the remaining two defendants is expected to conclude Friday.