Julieta Makintach’s role in a documentary series about negligence case over football star’s death led to mistrial
An Argentinian judge has been fired after causing a mistrial in the negligence case against the late football legend Diego Maradona’s medical team due to her involvement in a documentary about it.
A special panel of judges, lawyers and provincial legislators dismissed Julieta Makintach, 48, from her post and disqualified her from holding any other judicial position in the future.
Makintach was one of three judges in the now-annulled trial that followed Maradona’s death in 2020 while 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.
