Opinion ID: 2803111
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Heading: Delgado's Letter to the Prosecutor

Text: The evidence of Delgado's letter to the prosecutor consisted of two photocopied pages of handwritten text. The certified translation of the letter states as follows: To: The Prosecutor Dina Avíla Jímenez From: The best cooperator, Harry S. Delgado Hello! I hope under God Almighty that when you receive the foregoing in your hands, you enjoy perfect health together with your co-workers -11- and relatives. It is my best wish from the bottom of my heart. About me, I tell you that [illegible], I am well health-wise. I will start by saying that this is to let you know to please remember these 2 things, the first is that Jeanette4 is on probation and before she leaves the country, to clarify that point of view, because otherwise, they'll deem her as a fugitive and they may take away my daughters, and that would kill me, please clarify this thing of the probation first; and the second thing, I need an order from the Judge so that when they transfer me Jeanette can visit me, remember that I am not legally married, and to get visits you have to fill in a paper that you have to put your home and the criminal record and it is not convenient for any jail to know where Jeanette lives, what we want is that the least they know, the better, please help me, I am doing everything for my daughters and Jeanette. I need you to help me please. I promised you, the last time we saw each other, to do everything you said and I have done it to the point that you know how this has gotten, we have more than we expected, more evidence and more strength for the case, I hope you can help me, I will The photocopy of the letter is cut off after I will at the end of the letter's second page. The prosecutor reports that when she re-discovered the letter after the trial, she asked the FBI agents to go through each . . . folder or envelope to see if they could find the original, but they were unable to find it. Ramos-González, 747 F. Supp. 2d at 286—87. The prosecutor said that the agents could not find any other materials related to the letter, and she denied destroying any part of the letter herself or 4 Jeanette was Delgado's conjugal partner. -12- instructing the agents to destroy part of the letter. The district court was unable to definitively determine whether additional pages were missing from the letter and, if so, how such pages may have disappeared. Id. at 284.