Mackenzie Shirilla, 21, will continue serving her sentence after the Ohio Supreme Court declined to review her case. Shirilla was convicted of killing her boyfriend and their friend in a car crash in Strongsville, Ohio.
Background
Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault, and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. Her lawyers argued that she suffered from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), which could have caused her to lose consciousness before the crash.
The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision upholds a lower-court ruling that tossed Shirilla’s postconviction petition because it was filed one day too late. Shirilla’s lawyers had argued that the clock should have started later, but the appellate court rejected this argument.
Shirilla’s case has gained attention after being featured in the Netflix series ‘The Crash’. Her lawyers have maintained that the crash was not intentional, and they have argued that her trial lawyers failed to adequately investigate evidence of her POTS condition.
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