“The Crash” subject Mackenzie Shirilla loses bid for a new murder trial in Ohio

The Ohio Supreme Court declined to review an appeal for a new trial for Mackenzie Shirilla, 21, who was convicted of murder for killing her boyfriend and a friend in a 2022 car crash.

Shirilla was convicted in 2023 after prosecutors argued she intentionally drove her car nearly 100 miles per hour without braking into a brick wall in Strongsville when she was 17.

The crash killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend Davion Flanagan, 19, who were passengers in the car.

Shirilla was sentenced to life in prison with the eligibility of parole after serving 15 years.

The court refused to take up her latest appeal, which sought to revive a postconviction challenge dismissed by lower courts, ruling the petition was filed too late and the trial court lacked jurisdiction to consider it.

According to Ohio law, defendants are given 365 days to challenge their conviction after trial........

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