Overview
- Shirilla’s legal team filed a federal habeas corpus petition in U.S. District Court in late July seeking to set aside her 2023 convictions and win a new trial.
- She was convicted in a 2023 bench trial of multiple felonies, including murder, and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 15 years to life.
- The petition accuses trial lawyers of ineffective assistance for not investigating or presenting medical records and expert testimony about POTS, not pursuing texts and other evidence, and failing to challenge the transfer from juvenile court to adult court.
- The filing also challenges changes to coroner reports and says a deputy medical examiner testified instead of the pathologists who performed the autopsies, raising a Sixth Amendment confrontation claim.
- The federal case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge John Adams with no hearing set, state motions to reopen and to reconsider a late post‑conviction filing remain pending, and the case has drawn renewed public attention after a Netflix documentary and a victims’ family campaign.