Overview
- This week Flores’s lawyers filed a motion in the Southern District of New York asking the court to move her from the Brooklyn federal jail to home confinement on medical grounds.
- The filing details prior heart surgery, long‑standing mitral valve prolapse, a missed monthly injection since arrest, current prescriptions including nitroglycerin, and doctors’ advice to perform cardiac catheterisation.
- Lawyers propose strict safeguards for any release, including 24‑hour armed surveillance, court‑ and prosecutor‑approved visitors only, video monitoring of the home, GPS tracking, and recorded calls.
- Federal prosecutors have not yet publicly responded to the motion and Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has not ruled, with the substantive trial for Flores and Nicolás Maduro set for June 1, 2027.
- How the court balances Flores’s medical evidence and proposed conditions against detention and flight‑risk concerns could shape pretrial practices in high‑profile federal cases and directly affect Flores’s ability to receive recommended cardiac care.