‘Hell on Wheels’ driver Mackenzie Shirilla has filed an appeal of her conviction for murdering her boyfriend and their friend when she slammed her vehicle into a building at 100mph in 2022.
Shirilla has repeatedly maintained her innocence in the crash that claimed the lives of her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend, Davion Flanagan, 19.
Her lawyers now claim ‘there is medical evidence’ she ‘suffered from a pre-existing medical condition that could have caused her to black out while driving’ in their appeal asking the Ohio Supreme Court to take another look at her conviction.
The lawyers further say that the attorney who represented her at her trial in 2023 did not properly investigate the claim.
Her appeal had previously been denied after her lawyers missed the filing deadline by just one day, but court records show her attorneys re-filed the appeal in April.
They argue that the clock should have been started later because a separate transcript was filed weeks after the main trial record, and assert that Shirilla would have been acquitted if she had received effective legal aid at her first trial.
‘Hell on Wheels’ driver Mackenzie Shirilla has repeatedly maintained her innocence in the crash that claimed the lives of her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend, Davion Flanagan, 19
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