The first trial was dramatically annulled last year after two-and-a-half months of hearings, following revelations that one of the judges took part in a clandestine documentary about the case.<\/p>\n
A new trial began in April. It had been drawing near a close before this latest controversy.<\/p>\n
The defense claims that kidney tests produced at the trial belonged to Maradona’s father, also called Diego, who died in 2015, not the star of the 1986 World Cup.<\/p>\n
The court adjourned the hearings until 27 August to allow for a review of the evidence.<\/p>\n
Maradona died of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema – a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs – at a rented home in the Buenos Aires suburb of Tigre two weeks after undergoing surgery for a brain clot.<\/p>\n
His medical team is accused of providing inadequate care in the lead-up to his death, which it denies.<\/p>\n
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\nA fan of Maradona is wrapped in a flag bearing images of the footballer outside the courthouse during a hearing in the trial into his death in June<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, a nephrologist told the court that the condition of the player’s kidneys should have been a red flag for his doctors.<\/p>\n
He said the footballer should have undergone “daily medical checkups, daily nursing care, blood tests and monitoring of his vital signs”.<\/p>\n
The prosecution assured that the alleged text mix-up in no way jeopardised their case.<\/p>\n
“They (the defense) will not succeed in bringing down the trial,” prosecutor Patricio Ferrari said.<\/p>\n
A lawyer for one of the accused, nurse Nancy Forlini, denied any plans to seek a mistrial.<\/p>\n
“I want this case to end so that my client knows her judicial fate,” he said.<\/p>\n
If confirmed that the kidney test results were those of Maradona’s father, it could discredit the medical commission set up to evaluate the circumstances of Maradona’s death.<\/p>\n
The nephrologist who testified Tuesday is part of the commission, which has been highly critical of the care the star received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has been suspended following claims that kidney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-599567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}