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Maduro Seeks To Have U.S. Trial Tossed Out Due To Not Being Allowed To Use State Funds To Pay For His Defense

The defense team of Venezuela's former authoritarian president, Nicolas Maduro, requested for the trial against him be tossed out due to not being able to use state funds to pay for the legal team he and his wife Cilia Flores want to hire.

Maduro's current team claimed that the U.S. prosecutor's office acknowledged that under Venezuelan law they are entitled to use state funds to pay for their defense.

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