Judge in Maradona case accused of behaving like an ‘actress’

After being criticized for participating in a documentary about the case, an Argentine judge decided to step down from Diego Maradona’s medical staff’s trial.

In connection with his death in 2020, seven members of the legendary footballer’s medical team have been accused of causing negligent homicide. They refute the claims.

Judge Julieta Makintach was accused by prosecutor Patricio Ferrari of acting “like an actress and not a judge.”

Maradona passed away in a heart attack at the age of 60 while recovering from surgery on a brain blood clot in his home in Buenos Aires in November 2020.

Prosecutors claim his death could have been prevented, blaming the care as “reckless, deficient, and unprecedented”

A neurosurgeon, a doctor, and a night nurse make up the trial’s medical team. They claim the football player had given up on receiving any more medical attention and ought to have stayed at home instead.

They could spend between eight and twenty years in prison if found guilty.

The eagerly awaited trial started on March 11 and was scheduled to last until July, but its viability has been cast into doubt.

Unauthorised filming is prohibited by court regulations.

Rodolfo Baque, a defense attorney, yelled “trash” as a trailer for the documentary series Divine Justice in court! at Judge Makintach.

Gianinna Maradona’s daughter and Veronica Ojeda, Maradona’s ex-partner, both broke down after seeing the video.

According to Ms. Ojeda’s attorney, Mario Baudry felt that the case had now become “compromised” and that it was “healthiest to start over from scratch.”

The judge will decide whether the trial should start fresh or start over with a new judge.