Health issues or legal strategy? Defense and prosecutors clash over Cilia Flores’s condition
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By Maria Santana and Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español Cilia Flores, wife of the overthrown president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, insisted this Wednesday in his application to Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to be allowed to go to home prison before his trial scheduled for June next year, with the argument that he should remain
The joint trial against Flores and Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to begin on June 1, 2027.
The defense of Cilia Flores, wife of the deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, insisted this Wednesday on her request for release on bail and said that her health problems have worsened in prison. According to the court records, Flores’ lawyers claim that, since she was arrested, she has recorded “a 33 beat stroke of ventricular tachycardia,” she has suffered a 30-minute episode of “intense thoracic oppression,” after which no clinical an…
The defense of the former Venezuelan First Lady requests her release on the grounds of deterioration of health in prison, after being captured in a military operation.The Prosecutor's Office opposes, arguing the risk of escape, while the trial on drug trafficking and corruption charges is scheduled for 2027.
Cilia Flores again asks for bail for the deterioration of her health in prison
Health issues or legal strategy? Defense and prosecutors clash over Cilia Flores’s condition
The same week Delcy Rodríguez was received in New York as Venezuela’s interim ruler and met with Donald Trump in Manhattan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office opposed releasing Cilia Flores, wife of deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, on bail from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where both have been held since the January U.S. military intervention in Caracas.Seguir leyendo
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