Will the June 30, 2026 hearing in U.S. v. Maduro Moros (SDNY) be rescheduled before May 31, 2026?

Prediction market on metaculus. Nicolás Maduro Moros, the former president of Venezuela, was captured during a U.S. operation in Venezuela on January 3, 2026 and transported to New York, where he and his wife Cilia Flores were arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on January 5, 2026. They pleaded not guilty to narcoterrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and weapons-related charges in United States v. Nicolas Maduro Moros, et al., No. 1:11-cr-00205-AKH, before 92-year-old Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. The case has remained in the pretrial phase. At a March 26, 2026 hearing, Judge Hellerstein denied a defense motion to dismiss based on OFAC sanctions blocking access to Venezuelan government funds for attorneys' fees but criticized the government's position, indicating the right to counsel is 'paramount.' After OFAC modified the relevant licenses, the parties filed a joint letter on April 24, 2026, and Hellerstein issued an order accepting the modified licenses, permitting prior defense motions to be withdrawn without prejudice, and scheduling the next status/pretrial hearing for June 30, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. ET. As of mid-May 2026, that hearing remains on the docket; no trial date has been set; and substantive pretrial motions have not yet been briefed. Earlier in this case, a hearing originally set for mid-March 2026 was postponed to March 26, 2026, illustrating that rescheduling has already occurred in this matter. `{"format": "llm_question", "info": {"rating": {"quality": 3, "ambiguity": 4, "resolvability": 4, "passes": true}}}`

Resolves: 6/1/2026.