Overview
- Argentina’s new criminal trial, which opened Tuesday in San Isidro, targets seven members of Diego Maradona’s medical team on homicide-related charges that carry potential sentences of 8 to 25 years.
- Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari told the court Maradona’s death was foreseeable and described the care he received as lethal and criminal.
- The three-judge panel of Alberto Gaig, Alberto Ortolani and Pablo Rolón set a trimmed schedule with two hearings each week and an agreed witness list cut to about 90.
- Autopsy findings cited in court say Maradona died of acute pulmonary edema caused by heart failure, noting a 503-gram heart, dilated cardiomyopathy and widespread fluid buildup.
- His daughters attended as civil parties in a retrial ordered after the first case was voided when a judge allowed unauthorized filming for a documentary.