Nicolás Maduro was re­turned Wednes­day to a Man­hat­tan cour­t­house where lawyers plan to re­quest a June tri­al date for his drug traf­fick­ing case as his at­tor­neys ob­ject to the U.S. mil­i­tary ac­tion that snatched the Venezue­lan pres­i­dent from pow­er and de­posit­ed him in New York.

Maduro, 63, and his wife, Cil­ia Flo­res, 69, have been held at a Brook­lyn jail since U.S. forces seized them from their Cara­cas home in a mid­dle-of-the-night raid and brought them to New York in ear­ly Jan­u­ary.

Both have plead­ed not guilty. They face po­ten­tial life prison sen­tences if a ju­ry agrees that they were part of a con­spir­a­cy to send co­caine in­to the U.S.