Overview
- The retrial opened Tuesday in San Isidro before a new three-judge panel to assess alleged negligent homicide in Diego Maradona’s 2020 death, a charge that carries 8 to 25 years in prison.
- Prosecutors called his at-home team a "bunch of amateurs" and argued a timely transfer in his final week could have saved him, citing forensic findings of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema.
- The defendants pleaded not guilty and argue Maradona’s long‑standing illnesses made a fatal cardiac event unavoidable.
- Seven caregivers — including neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, and psychologist Carlos Díaz — are on trial, while nurse Dahiana Madrid will face a separate jury.
- Hearings will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays with about 100 witnesses, and AP reports the judges could rule in early June after the first trial was annulled over a judge’s documentary scandal.