Can Maduro get a fair trial?

Would this be a jury trial? If so, who will be the jury of Maduro’s peers? What judge will hear the case?

If convicted, does he serve time in a US Prison? If acquitted, does he simply go home?

What is the legal basis and history of citizens of one country being tried for crimes based on the laws of another country, if the crime was not committed within the sovereign borders of that country?

This seems like a legal shitshow that was not thought through…

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KunsanVeteran · M

Should be a very entertaining trial with Demented Donnie’s joke of a DO(in)J against the best lawyers in the world representing Maduro and his wife! I only hope it’s televised!

No evidence, potential witnesses murdered in international waters, tRUMP & Kegsbreath publicly stating that they gave those illegal orders, kidnapping a democratically elected President from a sovereign nation that we are not at war with…

Oh what a circus that will be!

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@KunsanVeteran Wheter Maduro was elected properly seems arguable, but it still does not excuse his "arrest" by a foreign country.

Only the International Criminal Court has any sort of international jurisdiction over national leaders and then only if they really overstep the mark.

Otherwise the implication of the USA's action would be that any government could invent any reason for its own convenience to go and kidnap any foreign premier.

It will be an interesting "circus" indeed, and with the entire world watching.