Diego Armando Maradona died on November 25, 2020.
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The Argentine Justice appointed Judge Pablo Adrián Rolón on Tuesday as the last member of the Court for a new trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona after the excuse of Alejandro Horacio Lago due to health problems.
Rolón, member of the Federal Oral Court (TOC) No. 5, will integrate the TOC No. 7 for a new trial for Maradona's death, after the first process was declared void on May 29. According to procedural times, he has two weeks to confirm his participation or excuse himself.
The court was then composed of judges Alberto Gaig, Alberto Ortolani and Pablo Rolón, which represents a key step for the advance of the new trial, which both family and defendants wait impatiently, although there are still no details about the start date.
In early July, Judge Lago, who had been drawn to integrate the court with Ortolani and Gaig, presented a medical certificate to excuse his functions, something that delayed the cause for the death of the Argentine star, on November 25, 2020.
“From the accompanied medical certificate, the health impediment invoked arises duly accredited that, due to prolonged treatment – which will demand a six -month license – compromises the full and sustained exercise of its jurisdictional functions to address the intensity and emotional burden that the present trial entails, given its complexity and the extension of the hearings,” says the resolution of the Judiciary by which the excuse of the magistrate was accepted.
The process that seeks to determine if eight health professionals are guilty of simple homicide for the death of the former soccer player had begun on March 11 of this year and was interrupted after it was discovered that one of the judges of the court, Julieta Makintach, starred in an unauthorized documentary about the process called 'Divine Justice'.
After the challenge, the Prosecutor's Office and the lawyers of almost all the parties argued “horizontal pollution” and asked that the other two judges of the court, Maximiliano Savarino and Verónica Di Tomasso, who accepted the request and decreed the nullity of the trial, were also challenged.
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