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Venezuela’s Maduro to test US courts' reluctance to apply international law in criminal cases

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NEW YORK, September 1 - For more than a century, in cases involving defendants ranging from a 19th-century Chicago bank clerk charged with theft to a Central American dictator accused of drug trafficking, U.S. judges have rejected arguments that alleged violations of international law or treaty obligations should result in dismissal of criminal indictments.

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