The defense attorney for nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid, one of the eight accused in the death of Diego Armando Maradona, has filed two motions for impeachment against judges Maximiliano Savarino and Verónica Di Tomasso. He argues that they were aware of the documentary orchestrated by Julieta Makintach.
Rodolfo Baqué sent the requests to the Noticias Argentinas agency, which he filed on Tuesday with the Secretariat for the Trial of the Permanent Jury of Buenos Aires Province.
The representative of the prosecution in the jury, which took place at the annex of the provincial Chamber of Senators in La Plata, considered that those involved committed "causes for removal from office" during the trial for the alleged intentional negligent homicide of the Argentine star.
«Specifically, the presence of a group of four people in the press area, who were not known journalists and entered with filming equipment (camera, tripod, laptop and 'spy glasses'), was detected», the document highlights regarding the recordings taken on March 11 of last year at the Oral Criminal Court No. 3 in San Isidro.
Furthermore, Baqué maintains that Savarino denied permission for a camera to enter the courtroom and emphasizes that none of those mentioned reported the irregularities generated during the trial. «They allowed Makintach to take on the role of presiding over the debate, when she was performing in an acting capacity», the document adds.
In this context, the conduct of the members of the TOC No. 3 is compatible with those described in article 21 of law 13.661 on "incompetence or negligence demonstrated in the exercise of their functions", "non-compliance with the duties inherent to the office", "the carrying out of facts or the development of activities incompatible with the dignity and austerity that the judicial office imposes".
Di Tomasso and Savarino would have committed "serious irregularities in the procedures under their charge or in those in which they may have intervened", as well as "any other action or omission that implies a failure in the good conduct required by the Constitution for the performance of the magistracy».
