‘Hell on wheels’ driver who whined about handcuffs after killing boyfriend, best friend dealt a final legal blow

Speeding “hell on wheels” killer Mackenzie Shirilla has been refused a new trial — because her lawyers were too slow and filed the request a day late.

The ruling by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court decision denying another trial for Shirilla, who was just 17 when she intentionally slammed her car into a wall in a Cleveland suburb, killing boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and 19-year-old friend Davion Flanagan, online court records show.

The court noted that the convicted filed the request one day late in 2024.

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“The filing of a postconviction petition is a jurisdictional act,” according to the appeal court’s ruling, which was released last week…

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