Julieta Makintach, the disgraced judge who caused a mistrial in the negligence case against the medical team in whose care football legend Diego Maradona died in 2020, has been removed from her post.
Makintach, 48, was one of three judges in the trial of seven medical professionals blamed by prosecutors for Maradona’s death while he was recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot after decades battling cocaine and alcohol addictions.
She recused herself after it emerged she had been interviewed for a miniseries about the case, potentially breaking a string of ethics rules.
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