New judges for the retrial of the case over the death of Argentine football star Diego Maradona were picked on Thursday after the original trial fell through. There is no date for the start of the proceedings yet.

The San Isidro 7th Criminal Court, headed by Roberto Gaig, Alejandro Lago, and María Cohelo, was chosen via random draw. 

The trio of judges, however, will change as Cohelo stepped down because she’s involved in another case involving another party accused of the star’s death, namely the trial by jury of nurse Dahiana Madrid. Cohelo will be replaced by Judge Alberto Ortolani.

Diego Maradona’s original death trial

Maradona died on November 25, 2020, less than a month after undergoing surgery to remove a subdural hematoma. He had returned to Argentina in September 2019 following an eight-year stint coaching abroad. Family members questioned the circumstances of Maradona’s death, as well as the care he was given in the years prior and the responsibility of those in charge of his well-being

The trial was originally scheduled for June 2024 but was repeatedly delayed. When it finally started in March 2025, talk centered around the former star’s health. Witnesses testified that his condition had been deteriorating “for at least ten days” prior to his death, painting a picture of a Maradona who looked lost in his final days, while others criticized the state of the home care installations.

Cosachov, the only of the accused to give her version of events, looked to rebut suggestions that Maradona’s team led the star’s relatives on.

The first trial was declared null and void after judges Maximiliano Savarino and Verónica Di Tommaso claimed that the third judge, Julieta Mackintach, had taken part in “multiple discussions with witnesses and lawyers” during breaks in the daily proceedings, “to the detriment of all parties, and marking the nullity of the debate.”

Mackintach had already accepted the prosecutor’s request that she be recused after evidence of an unauthorized documentary of the proceedings, with the judge in the spotlight, surfaced. The Buenos Aires Province Supreme Court suspended the judge for 90 days. The San Isidro Bar Association has also filed an impeachment complaint against her.

The trial saw Maradona’s main medical advisor, Leopoldo Luque, as well as the star’s psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov, and psychologist, Carlos Díaz, stand accused of failing to administer proper medical care for their patient despite being in full knowledge of the former star’s condition. 

Medical care coordinators Nancy Forlini and Mariano Perroni, designated doctor Pedro Di Spagna, and nurses Ricardo Almirón and Dahiana Madrid have also been accused of involuntary manslaughter.