After receiving complaints about one of the judges, the trial was suspended on Tuesday for a week. The court in Argentina is currently trying the late football legend Diego Maradona’s medical team.
After defense attorneys complained about the judge’s alleged involvement in a documentary about the case, the court granted the prosecution’s request to suspend the case.
The pause was ordered “to resolve an issue of institutional gravity,” according to prosecutor Patricio Ferrari.
The attorneys had earlier requested that Julieta Makintach, the same judge, be excused from the two-month-old trial.
Maradona underwent brain surgery to treat a blood clot at home and passed away on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60.
Two weeks after being stabbed, he died of heart failure and acute pulmonary embolism.
His seven-person medical team is facing a lawsuit over Tigre, a private home in the city of Buenos Aires, where he spent his final days while he was unconscious.
The football legend’s care in his final days has been called grossly negligent by the prosecution.
If found guilty of “homicide with possible intent,” which means following a course of action despite knowing it could lead to death, the defendants face prison sentences of eight to twenty years.
Source: Channels TV
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