Overview
- Seven health workers went on trial Tuesday in San Isidro on a charge of homicide with possible intent, an offense that carries 8 to 25 years in prison.
- The new three-judge panel rejected a defense bid to curb live broadcasting at the opening session, underscoring the high public interest in the case.
- Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari said the team ran an improvised home hospitalization that lacked oxygen, IV fluids, and a heart monitor, and he argued they abandoned Maradona to his fate.
- Defense lawyers denied any crime and said Maradona died from a heart attack tied to long-term health problems, disputing an autopsy view that he agonized for at least 12 hours and asserting he made his own care choices.
- The retrial follows the 2025 annulment over a judge’s secret role in a documentary, and it restarts from scratch with two hearings a week for at least three months as Maradona’s daughters attend as civil parties.