Cochabamba cocaine trial continues / News / The Foreigner — Norwegian News in English: "trial of the two remaining women charged with trying to smuggle cocaine out of Bolivia last year recommenced today, four months after the indefinite adjournment.
Acquittal refused
Stine Brendemo Hagen (19) and Madeleine Rodriguez (23) were transported to the courthouse yesterday.
NRK reports efforts by Moises Kestelbaum Gamarra, Rodriguez’s defence counsel, to postpone the trial further, failed.
Gamarra said he believes his client should be acquitted because she wasn’t offered an interpreter at the time of her arrest, which contravenes Bolivia’s Constitution.
But the Prosecution claimed one of the accused speaks Spanish, and both women were offered help from the Norwegian Consulate General in La Paz. Judge Jean Luis Ledezma refused Gamarra’s request, and ordered the trial be reconvened today."
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