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The Crash: What a Defense Attorney Sees When He Looks at the Mackenzie Shirilla Prosecution
A prosecutor called it a "mission of death." A judge agreed. But a criminal defense attorney who has spent his career on the other side of cases like this says the Mackenzie Shirilla prosecution has vulnerabilities that should have been exposed at trial — and weren't, because the defense never mounted the challenge the evidence demanded.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution relied on surveillance footage, black box data, selected text messages, and a prior incident on I-71. The defense…
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