"There's Evil Working Against Me, I'm the 3rd Victim" Mackenzie’s Jail Calls Released

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Welcome to the second half of part four. In the first half of part four, we went through a lot of the jail calls that have been going viral of 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla talking to her parents while she's sitting in jail, while she's sitting in prison, awaiting trial for murder, then being convicted. It's just a mess. She wants Kim Kardashian to represent her and set her free. And in this half, we're going to be going through the trial as well as Mackenzie Shirilla's reaction to the verdict in a phone call that she had with her mom. So with that being said, the Shirillas believe the judge overseeing Mackenzie's case is corrupt. At least that's what they've been alluding to non-stop. They believe that there's something going on between Dom Russo's family and Judge Russo, which side note, a few things, okay? They do share the same last name. Does not mean that they are related. They are not related. That has been proven. And another thing, Christine Russo, Dom's mother, did in fact work for the DA's office. But that again doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's not like she's currently working for the DA's office, and there's nothing to prove any sort of nefarious connection that would have impacted the trial. The main things I keep hearing from the Shirillas is that the investigators didn't hand over some interviews during Discovery, which allegedly has Dom's mom and brother talking about Mackenzie's medical condition, POTS, which I did hear in one interview, Dom's mom says that Mackenzie started bringing it up after the crash, and she felt like it was trying to plant seeds. But let's say this is true. Maybe they're sitting there and being like, oh yeah, I saw her faint all the time. I saw her pass out all the time, right? Like just for hypotheticals. Let's say that's true. Even if they said that, I don't know how that changes anything as it pertains to the trial. Like I said, you can have POTS and drive safely. You can have POTS and kill people in a car crash. It was up to them to bring in a POTS expert, a medical expert to prove that she indeed did have some sort of accident relating to POTS. It's not up to Dom's mom. It's not Dom's mom's opinion. So I just don't know where this correlation is. But they're kind of alluding to some sort of corruption behind the scenes. Aside from that, I do think that if they really did not receive certain key things in discovery that were necessary to their defense, that would be a big, big problem. There are strict laws for discovery, and that just doesn't seem to be the basis of their appeal or at least not the main one. And it's just not something that they bring up all the time. It's just in interviews. I would imagine that's a huge thing. And the second thing is, they bring up frequently in interviews, is that they believe that there's some sort of corruption or bribery happening. In one interview, the interviewer says to Mackenzie's dad, Steve, the interviewer says, you know, I was trying to explain that having the last name Russo in this county is like having the last name Kennedy in Boston.