The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday, Feb. 12 2019, in federal court in New York. (Photo: AP)

US Attorney Richard Donoghue says the conviction of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is “a day of reckoning,” and there’s more to come.

Donoghue says Tuesday outside a federal courthouse in Brooklyn he expects Guzman to get a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

He calls it “a sentence from which there is no escape and no return.”

A defense lawyer says Guzman’s conviction is “devastating.” But Jeffrey Lichtman adds he can “proudly say” the defense “left it all on the battlefield.”

Jurors convicted Guzman on all 10 counts in an international drug distribution trial that lasted more than three months.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman stared at the jury straight-faced as the judge read the guilty verdict.

Guzman leaned back in his chair Tuesday to catch the eye of his wife, who gave him a subtle thumbs-up, when the jury was discharged from a federal courthouse in Brooklyn.

A defense lawyer says Guzman’s conviction is “devastating.”

But Jeffrey Lichtman added he can “proudly say” the defense “left it all on the battlefield.”

US District Judge Brian Cogan lauded the jury’s meticulous attention to detail. Cogan says it made him “very proud to be an American.”

The verdict reached on the sixth day of jury deliberations could put 61-year-old Guzman behind bars for the rest of his life in a high-security US prison selected to thwart another one of the escapes that embarrassed his native country.

The notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been found guilty on all counts in an international drug distribution trial in New York.

Jurors convicted him on all 10 counts that are likely to put him behind bars for the rest of his life. He is set to be sentenced on June 25.

The 61-year-old Guzman broke out of Mexican prisons twice before he was finally recaptured and extradited to the US in 2017.

Federal prosecutors put on more than 50 witnesses over three months detailing how Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel amassed billions of dollars importing tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the US.