Overview
- The restarted case at San Isidro’s Criminal Court No. 7, which held opening sessions last Tuesday and Thursday, has seven health workers on trial for simple homicide with eventual intent, a charge that carries 8 to 25 years in prison.
- An appeals panel in San Isidro overturned Judge María Coelho’s remittance in the separate case of nurse Dahiana Madrid, saying recusals must be handled by judges of the same rank, and it returned the issue to the proper forum without ruling on the merits.
- Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque asked to speak without prior notice, declared his innocence and said Maradona did not suffer a 12-hour agony, then refused questions, which halted planned testimony and drew complaints from prosecutors who viewed it as a stalling move.
- Tuesday’s third hearing is set to hear from Gianinna Maradona and police witnesses, and Luque’s team signals he may seek face-to-face confrontations with witnesses to challenge accounts from the autopsy and the scene.
- Prosecutors named Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov as chiefly responsible and detailed alleged omissions across the care team, including blocked clinical visits, poor monitoring, incomplete nursing logs and a failure to respond to signs of heart failure; Madrid will face a separate jury trial after the main case ends.