Overview
- Prosecutor Analía Duarte asked the jury to remove Makintach, alleging she lied, acted with partiality, abused her authority, and used public resources to advance the 'Justicia Divina' project.
- Makintach denied wrongdoing, told the panel the filming was not clandestine, apologized to Maradona’s family, and insisted, "I never lied," while accusing tribunal colleagues of misrepresenting events.
- Producers testified that cameras recorded for about three hours on the trial’s first day and not again, and new WhatsApp messages showed Makintach urging her co-judges to meet as the scandal erupted.
- Dalma and Gianinna Maradona testified that the judge swore by her children there was no documentary, describing the subsequent revelation as a painful breach of trust.
- The judge is suspended and has submitted her resignation, which provincial authorities kept pending as the jury proceeds, while a separate criminal probe in San Isidro remains open.