Argentina has begun a fresh trial to determine whether seven healthcare professionals bear criminal responsibility for the 2020 death of football legend Diego Maradona, after last year's proceedings were entirely annulled. The original trial, which had advanced through more than 20 hearings and 44 witness testimonies, was invalidated when it emerged that one of the presiding judges was secretly being filmed for a documentary series without the consent of the parties — a scandal that led to her removal from the bench and a lifetime ban from judicial office. The four doctors, two nurses, and a psychologist now face charges of homicide with eventual intent (a legal concept under Argentine law involving reckless disregard for a patient's life), carrying potential sentences of 8 to 25 years, with prosecutors alleging the medical team's care was 'inadequate, deficient, and reckless' in the weeks following Maradona's brain surgery in November 2020.