NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer cited President Donald Trump’s recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Thursday as she asked a judge who once presided over a civil sex abuse case against Trump to treat a former Honduran congressman leniently for his drug conspiracy conviction.

Attorney Kristen Santillo said the Hernandez pardon made it unfair to force her 65-year-old client, Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, to spend essentially the rest of his life behind bars while others who “are the most powerful, who have the most money … are going to go home.”

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced Martinez, a former Honduran congressman, to 21 years and 10 months in prison. While he acknowledged that sentencing disparities are a factor judges must consider, he also made it cl

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