Venezuela's former authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro has asked that the drug trafficking indictment against him and his wife be thrown out because he is a head of state and immune from prosecution.
CBS News noted that the motion was filed in Manhattan federal court and argues that the case should be dismissed: "No American court has ever presided over the criminal trial of a foreign leader who was recognized by their own country as the sitting head of state at the time the charges were brought," the motion states.
