- Mackenzie Shirilla, serving a life sentence for a fatal car crash, has filed a federal habeas corpus petition arguing her conviction and imprisonment violated her constitutional rights.
- Shirilla's new legal team contends her original attorneys provided ineffective assistance and withheld crucial evidence, including medical records suggesting a condition causing sudden loss of consciousness.
- The petition also claims her case was improperly transferred from juvenile to adult court due to insufficient evidence of intent, and that police influenced the coroner to change the manner of death to homicide.
- Shirilla's attorneys assert she was denied her Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses, as a deputy medical examiner testified instead of the pathologists who performed the autopsies.
- Her federal filing seeks to overturn her murder conviction and secure a new trial, following unsuccessful state-level appeals, with the case now assigned to U.S. District Judge John Adams.
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