外媒：美国的顶尖律师正争取为马杜罗辩护

1月3日，美国派兵强行控制委内瑞拉总统马杜罗夫妇并移送出境。

据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）4日报道，在马杜罗将于曼哈顿联邦法院面临“刑事指控”之际，美国多名顶尖刑事辩护律师已开始运作，希望争取出任其辩护律师。

Top criminal defense lawyers are already angling to represent Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela taken by US forces to face charges in Manhattan federal court, according to CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig.

CNN高级法律分析师艾利·霍尼格称，马杜罗案件对实力雄厚的辩护律师而言“极具吸引力”，原因有三：首先，这起案件“关系重大”，不仅涉所谓毒品与武器等重罪指控，更牵动国际政治与外交层面；其次，马杜罗有能力支付高额律师费用；此外，案件本身还具有极高的曝光度。霍尼格说，“重量级刑事辩护律师向来喜欢参与重量级案件。”

Maduro's legal case is attractive to high-powered defense lawyers for a few reasons, Honig told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Saturday.

First, the case is "extremely high stakes".

Additionally, the Venezuelan president "is obviously a very wealthy individual who can pay top dollar for his defense team."

The case is also going to be "massively high profile" — and "big-time criminal defense lawyers like to be involved in big-time cases."

霍尼格还指出，预计此案将牵涉“前所未见的宪法与国际法争议”，尤其是涉及国家元首身份、美国司法管辖权以及跨国军事行动的合法性等问题，“一些辩护律师希望有机会对这些法律议题进行辩论”。

霍尼格补充说，“我们真的很少见到这样的案件。”

Finally, the case will likely involve "novel constitutional and international law arguments" that "some of these defense lawyers would like a chance to argue," Honig said.

"We've really seen very little like this," he said.

来源：环球时报 中国新闻网 CNN

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