Buenos Aires: The seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona will stand a new trial starting in March, the San Isidro court on the outskirts of Buenos Aires announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Last May, the Argentinian court declared a mistrial after Julieta Makintach, one of the three judges overseeing the trial, stepped down over criticism about her participation in a documentary on the case.<\/p>\n
Makintach will be facing a trial starting on Thursday in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, for misconduct in her duties, which could lead to her removal from office.<\/p>\n
The negligence case accuses Maradona\u2019s medical team of failing to provide adequate care in the weeks leading up to his death nearly five years ago at a home outside Buenos Aires. Maradona died at age 60 from cardiac arrest while recovering from surgery for a blood clot on the brain.<\/p>\n
The defendants, who deny all accusations, were charged with culpable homicide, a crime similar to involuntary manslaughter in that it implies the accused were aware of the risk caused by their alleged reckless conduct and ignored it.<\/p>\n
They include Leopoldo Luque, Maradona\u2019s primary physician at the time of his death, as well as his psychologist, psychiatrist, medical coordinator and nurses.<\/p>\n
The crime carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Maradona, who famously led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, is regarded as one of the greatest soccer players of all time. His rags-to-riches story resonated with his fellow Argentines and he is widely revered as a national hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buenos Aires: The seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9877,19866,45976,85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-118188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-buenos-aires","10":"tag-diego-maradona","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}