Overview
- This evidentiary phase opened this week with forensic doctor Carlos Mauricio Cassinelli testifying that the autopsy found acute pulmonary edema from chronic heart failure and a dilated cardiomyopathy and that Maradona underwent about 12 hours of agonía without adequate monitoring.
- The 2021 Junta Médica Interdisciplinaria, whose members Cassinelli helped coordinate, reviewed full clinical records and the autopsy and reported that most peritos found medical omissions and failures in domiciliary care.
- Prosecutors rely on the junta’s findings that staff failed to detect warning signs such as leg swelling, shortness of breath, high blood pressure and fast heart rate that signaled decompensated heart failure.
- The defense has submitted a contrary expert report by perito Pablo Ferrari, prompting technical disputes in court and limits by the judges on some lines of questioning about how the rival opinions should be weighed.
- The tribunal must now decide how to resolve the expert conflict, a determination that will shape whether the seven accused — including Leopoldo Luque and Agustina Cosachov — are found guilty of homicidio simple con dolo eventual and face prison terms of 8 to 25 years.