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Cilia Flores’s defense replies to prosecutors and renews pretrial-release request
COURT DOCUMENT Document details
- Case
- United States v. Maduro Moros et al. · S.D.N.Y. No. 1:11-cr-00205
- Docket entry
- No. 335
- Filed
- Document
- Cilia Flores’s defense replies to prosecutors and renews pretrial-release request
- Main subject
- Cilia Flores
- Also named or affected
- Nicolás Maduro · Diosdado Cabello
- Original
- Court filing (PDF, English)
Summary written from the filing; the document itself is the record.
Cilia Flores’s defense filed a September 30 reply to the government’s opposition to her release before trial. The filing supports the application at entries 326 and 327 and responds to entry 333. It is a defense argument, not a court ruling.
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan) · case 1:11-cr-00205
- Judge
- Alvin K. Hellerstein · who he is
- Prosecution
- U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York (U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton)
- Defense
- Barry Pollack (Maduro) · Mark Donnelly (Cilia Flores)
- Next date
- October 8, 2026 · Hearing on Cilia Flores's request for house arrest
- Where it stands
- Maduro and Cilia Flores held at MDC Brooklyn since January 2026; both pleaded not guilty. Trial set for June 1, 2027. Hugo Carvajal pleaded guilty (June 2025) and awaits sentencing. Diosdado Cabello is charged but not in custody.
What it means
The reply completes the scheduled briefing before the October 8 hearing. The docket does not yet show a ruling on pretrial release.
What the text shows
Analysed words: 7,297 · complete English original
Most-mentioned people
- Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro — defendant · 64 mentions
- Diosdado Cabello Rondón — defendant · 1 mentions
- Nicolás Maduro Moros — defendant · 1 mentions
Recurring legal themes
- Evidence and discovery · 12
- Pretrial release / house arrest · 8
- Weapons · 4
- Drug trafficking · 3
- Sealing / confidentiality · 3
- Scheduling · 1
Deterministic name and theme counts; a mention does not prove an allegation. The complete English original was analyzed.
What happens next
The hearing on the pretrial-release request is scheduled for October 8, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.
The document itself is not public yet. This summary comes from the court's own description; we add quotes as soon as it is released.
How the court describes it (original, English)
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