Overview
- A Nuevo León–based appellate panel annulled the auto de formal prisión tied to alleged collaboration with the Gulf Cartel.
- Magistrate Angélica Lucio Rosales held that the Tamaulipas tribunal violated due‑process duties by not valuing the defense’s documentary evidence.
- The court ordered a fresh evidentiary hearing and a new, fully reasoned decision addressing all submissions from the parties.
- Tomás Yarrington remains in the Federal Penal del Altiplano because the order resets the process, and a separate money‑laundering formal imprisonment from May remains active.
- Prosecutors relied on five protected witnesses, including a DEA informant who alleged cartel funding for Yarrington’s 1998 campaign, claims the defense challenges as insufficiently specific.