Test Suspension Keys for Diego Armando Maradona’s death

The trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona It was suspended on Tuesday for a week’s period, a period of Julieta Makintachaccused of isolation and allowed the entry of two documentaries without permission.

These are the three keys to understand the trial suspension against seven health professionals for Argentine’s idol death on November 25, 2020:

Accusations against the judge

Julieta MakintachOne of the court judges carrying the debate, was accused of defense’s lawyers of one of the accused, the head doctor Leopold Luqueof separation and allowing the entry of two documentaries without the permission of the parties.

The lawyers Julio Rivas and Mara Digiuni They pointed out that, throughout the debate, “thoughts and questions were noted to suggest a bias in evidence evaluation, which compromised the right to a fair and equal judgment.”

In their dispute, with questions asked by the defendant’s psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov, Makintach He presented “an active role in the construction of an accusation hypothesis, which is not compatible with the judge’s required injustice.”

On the other hand, the magistrate was accused of being authorized, without approved by any of the parties, the availability of two unidentified and allegedly involved journalists in the realization of a trial documentary.

The path to suspension

Suspicions restored to magistrates were first expressed on Thursday by lawyers of Luqueby presenting a formal request for challenge to the judge, which the court immediately rejected.

Rivas and Digiunias well as the protector of Cosachov, Vadim MischanchukThey showed the sources of the appeal, which still await a resolution.

Consistent, lawyers Fernando Burlando and Mario Baudry.

This Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s office He featured the “severity of the institutional” of the situation and requested the suspension of the debate for a period of ten days to assess the evidence collected in the investigation after the complaint of MOucking and BaudryBut the court decided to reduce that period in a week.

Can the test be declared void?

Consensus on the seriousness of the facts that were stolen was shown on Tuesday with a climb to the request for the suspension raised by Prosecutor’s office By five complaints and four of the seven defenses that make up this debate.

On Tuesday, May 27, the debate will continue and all parties must take a position for or against the judge’s challenge, based on the evidence collected this week in the investigation.

On that day, the court may decide or not give a request for the challenge and raise it to the Chamber of Appeal and Criminal Guarantee 1 to solve it. Or, as self Makintach This Tuesday, he can decide to leave.

However, there are positions found in how the process should continue in case the judge is challenged.

While the lawyer of Nancy Forlini, Nicolás d’Aloborasaid that “if you need to remove the doctor Makintach This debate has fallen and you have to declare it null “, the lawyer Mischanchuk He considers that the “a probative agreement between the parties” is possible, reflecting as valid testimonies given to the court.

“If one of the vowels is gone, you need to see the disposal of a new judge and see from which procedure we continue,” mockery in this sense, which is eventually clarified, though it is not necessary to “start from the beginning”, it means that the test will be restored in the initial instances.

The test, which is taking place in Oral court In the criminal (TOC) No. 3 of San Isidro, outside Buenos Aires, began on March 11, 2025 and held 19 hearings, where they announced more than 40 witnesses, along with three daughters of the late former Soccer, Dalma, Gianinna and Jana Maradona player.