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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, based on courtroom paperwork seen by CNN.
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 known as 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 answerable for,” which subsequently “led to the deadly consequence of the affected person that, in any other case, may have been prevented,” based on courtroom 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 answerable for Maradona’s fragile well being.
The defendants didn’t take “any saving motion” that would have prevented Maradona’s loss of life regardless of occupying positions of “guarantors” able to motion and being conscious of his “scenario of threat,” Díaz stated.
The defendants’ alleged failure to behave based on “good medical apply” fulfilled the authorized standards for “malice” required to cost them underneath Article 79 of Argentina’s authorized code, based on Díaz, which means they might 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 extra fees. 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, based on courtroom paperwork seen by CNN.
Luque’s lawyer informed CNN Español that he rejects the costs introduced towards him and can attraction the courtroom’s ruling.
CNN has reached out to Cosachov’s lawyer however didn’t obtain a direct reply. In December 2020, Cosachov’s lawyer informed CNN that his consumer “had used her greatest judgment from a medical viewpoint.”
