Mackenzie Shirilla of Netflix's The Crash Denied Appeal in Murder Case

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Mackenzie Shirilla will remain in prison for the murder of her boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan.

The 21-year-old, whose involvement in a deadly 2022 car crash was documented in Netflix's The Crash, was denied an appeal by the Supreme Court of Ohio, according to legal documents obtained by E! News.

Shirilla filed a notice of appeal earlier this year, with her legal team saying her case "presents substantial constitutional questions and matters of great public and great general interest" after her post-conviction relief petition was rejected due to being filed one day late from her deadline.

In response, prosecutors argued in a May filing that Shirilla's appeal "fails to present an issue of public or great general interest," saying her claim "concerns only the untimely filing of a post-conviction petition due to the mistake of counsel."

Ultimately, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Sharon L. Kennedy refused to review Shirilla's case, writing in a June 23 decision that she "declines to accept jurisdiction of the appeal."

E! News has reached out to Shirilla's attorney for comment but hasn't heard back.

Shirilla is currently serving two concurrent 15 years to life sentences for killing Russo, 20, and Flanagan, 19, on July 31, 2022, when the Toyota Camry she was driving smashed into a brick wall at over 100 mph.

During her trial, prosecutors alleged Shirilla "chose a course of death and destruction" by purposefully crashing the car. Meanwhile, the aspiring influencer maintained her innocence, saying she had no memory of what happened before the collision.

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In her first interview from prison, Shirilla affirmed that she had "no intent whatsoever" on Russo, with whom she was in an on-and-off relationship, and their friend Flanagan.

"I was a driver of a tragedy," she said in The Crash, "but I'm not a murderer."

Shirilla added, "I try to wake up and be the best person I can be every day, stay out of trouble. There's not a moment that doesn’t pass where I don't think about them."

For more about the case against Shirilla, read on.

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