Eight medical professionals charged with murder in Diego Maradona's loss of life will go to trial

Muricas News  — 

An Argentine decide dominated on Wednesday that eight medical professionals charged with “easy murder” within the loss of life of soccer legend Diego Maradona will go to oral trial, in line with court docket paperwork seen by Muricas News.

The date of the trial has not but been set.

Maradona died aged 60 from coronary heart failure in November 2020, the identical month he underwent profitable surgical procedure for a subdural hematoma, extra generally often called a blood clot on the mind.

Prosecutors allege the eight medical professionals charged in Maradona’s loss of life “violated the duties that every one was in command of,” which subsequently “led to the deadly final result of the affected person that, in any other case, may have been averted,” in line with court docket paperwork.

In his Wednesday ruling, decide Orlando Abel Díaz stated the eight defendants had not acted with the “thoroughness” demanded by their positions as medical professionals in command of Maradona’s fragile well being.

The defendants didn't take “any saving motion” that might have prevented Maradona’s loss of life regardless of occupying positions of “guarantors” able to motion and being conscious of his “state of affairs of threat,” Díaz stated.

The defendants’ alleged failure to behave in line with “good medical observe” fulfilled the authorized standards for “malice” required to cost them beneath Article 79 of Argentina’s authorized code, in line with Díaz, that means they may face eight to 25 years in jail.

In his ruling, Díaz additionally rejected 5 petitions for nullities and motions for dismissal by the defendants’ protection attorneys.

The decide additionally stated two of the accused would stand trial to face further expenses. Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque faces a cost of utilizing a false personal doc and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov faces a cost of ideological falsity, as she is accused of getting signed a certificates vouching for Maradona’s psychological health with out visiting him, in line with court docket paperwork seen by Muricas News.

Luque’s lawyer instructed Muricas News Español that he rejects the fees introduced towards him and can enchantment the court docket’s ruling.

Muricas News has reached out to Cosachov’s lawyer however didn't obtain an instantaneous reply. In December 2020, Cosachov’s lawyer instructed Muricas News that his shopper “had used her finest judgment from a medical viewpoint.”