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Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

An Ar­gen­tine court on Thurs­day de­clared a mis­tri­al in the case of sev­en health pro­fes­sion­als ac­cused of neg­li­gence in the death of soc­cer leg­end Diego Maradona, the lat­est dra­mat­ic twist in a tri­al that has cap­ti­vat­ed the na­tion and the soc­cer world for more than two months.

The whiplash de­ci­sion comes af­ter one of the three judges over­see­ing the tri­al stepped down over crit­i­cism sur­round­ing her par­tic­i­pa­tion in a forth­com­ing doc­u­men­tary about the case.