The new Argentine court presides over the trial for the death of Diego Maradona In 2000 he has rejected the defense request to challenge two judges. The lawyers of Leopold LuqueMaradona's personal doctor, who is being investigated for the death of the Argentine idol, requested on Monday that two of the three judges of the new court, formed in July after the declaration of nullity of the first trial, were challenged. The lawyers alleged a “certain fear that they are not impartial.”
The judges rejected the request, considering that the motion “shows a purely dilatory purpose based on personal appreciations, conjectures and speculation lacking legal basis.” Luque's lawyers have already announced that they would appeal.
The first trial was declared void at the end of May after two and a half months of hearings, more than 40 witnesses and the scandal that caused one of the three judges to be challenged for participating in the preparation of a documentary series about the trial, starring herself.
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