Diego Maradona Death Trial In Doubt With Judge's Impartiality In Question

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 15:19 IST

The proceedings of 7 Argentine wellness professionals for Diego Maradona's decease hangs successful the equilibrium implicit questions astir a judge's impartiality.

Fans of Diego Maradona clasp a banner that reads successful Spanish "Justice for God" extracurricular the tribunal (AP)

More than 2 months into the trial, 7 Argentine wellness professionals accused successful the decease of shot fable Diego Maradona look uncertainty owed to questions astir a judge’s impartiality.

The proceedings was paused past week aft defence lawyers claimed the judge’s engagement successful a related documentary could beryllium a breach of her duties, power peddling, oregon adjacent bribery.

The imaginable removal of Julieta Makintach, 1 of the 3 judges overseeing the case, could invalidate the proceedings.

Maradona passed distant connected 25 November 2020, astatine property 60, portion recovering astatine location from encephalon country for a humor clot. He had battled cocaine and intoxicant addictions for decades. He died of bosom nonaccomplishment and acute pulmonary edema 2 weeks aft country and was recovered dormant successful furniture by his time nurse.

Maradona’s aesculapian squad is connected proceedings successful San Isidro, a Buenos Aires suburb, concerning the conditions of his betterment astatine a backstage home. Prosecutors person described his attraction successful his last days arsenic grossly negligent.

The proceedings is scheduled to resume connected Tuesday, with astatine slightest 1 lawyer expected to petition Makintach’s recusal. If she is removed, it indispensable beryllium decided whether she tin beryllium replaced oregon if the proceedings indispensable restart with a caller sheet of judges.

“This is simply a ungraded of specified magnitude that the full satellite is talking astir Argentine justness arsenic the worst example," Fernando Burlando, a lawyer for Maradona’s daughters, said connected section vigor past week.

The contented involves the alleged usage of cameras successful the courtroom, violating a prohibition connected filming the trial. Makintach denied participating successful oregon authorising immoderate filming, but footage shared successful Argentine media implicit the play shows her allegedly being interviewed by a movie unit connected the eve of the trial.

A producer, successful a deposition seen by AFP, claimed they were filming a documentary astir Makintach, arsenic “a justice and a woman", but not the proceedings itself.

Burlando rejected this mentation and said helium would petition Makintach’s recusal connected Tuesday. “She did not enactment similar a justice but similar an actress," helium stated. “Everyone present feels that this proceedings is compromised," added Mario Baudry, the lawyer for Maradona’s ex-partner Veronica Ojeda. “It’s healthiest to commencement implicit from scratch."

If convicted of “homicide with imaginable intent", the defendants look situation presumption ranging from 8 to 25 years. The lawsuit has truthful acold focused connected the determination by Maradona’s doctors to let him to retrieve astatine location with minimal supervision and aesculapian equipment, alternatively than successful a aesculapian facility.

In her testimony, Maradona’s girl Gianinna said her father’s carers kept him successful “a dark, disfigured and lonely" spot and seemed much funny successful wealth than his well-being.

(With inputs from AFP)

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